Kick Ass Quotes - Page 5

• Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.

  Jessica Valenti

  Smart, Men, Media

  Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.106, Seal Press

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• Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

  Franz Kafka

  Business, Able, Things Done

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• Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Doubt

  Dorothy Parker, “Inventory”

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• Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

  Donald Trump

  Moving On, Success, Giving Up

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• The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Dinner, Way

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• Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lying, Mean, Giving

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

  Tom Peters

  Positive, Simple, Productive Work

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• Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Warrior, Long, Design

  Hunter S. Thompson's note to his grandson Will (2005), as quoted in William McKeen "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson", 2008.

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• Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dream, Long, Way

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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• If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Leadership, Work

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Morning, Health

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