Ian Somerhalder Quotes

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in another. If we say we have to increase production because people need more food, more housing, more meat, or more milk, we can make one thing grow in a certain way. But by doing that we create externalities so that there are scarcities in other related things.

If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've got 10 ideas and we really only have the budget for one of them, then we have to pick the best one that is our most creative element.

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.