{"id":301,"date":"2006-06-08T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com.previewdns.com\/ocblog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2009-09-24T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T04:43:56","slug":"some-great-quotes-to-stir-the-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/some-great-quotes-to-stir-the-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Great Quotes to Stir the Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off the subject of things landscape, here are some great quotes that struck a chord with me as collected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0142000280\/002-0600945-3507269?v=glance&amp;n=283155\">David Allen in his book Getting Things Done<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work \u2013 Thomas Edison<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans \u2013 John Lennon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How come little kids practice and big kids don\u2019t? \u2013Steve Shull<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about \u2013Charles Kingsley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In order to arrive at what you do not know, you must go by the way of ignorance \u2013 T.S. Elliot<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking \u2013Thomas Edison<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The average man does not know what to do with his life. Yet wants another one which will last forever \u2013Anatole France<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To be what we are. And to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life \u2013 Robert Louis Stevenson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The palest ink is clearer than the fondest memory \u2013 Chinese Saying<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled &#8211; Plutarch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/archives\/2006\/06\/some_great_quot.html#comments\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the subject of things landscape, here are some great quotes that struck a chord with me as collected by David Allen in his book Getting Things Done: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work \u2013 Thomas Edison Life is what happens to you while you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/some-great-quotes-to-stir-the-blood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Great Quotes to Stir the Blood<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}