At the start of every month I pick a quote I like and hang it at my desk and try to use it to guide my thought process for the month and I thought I would share them here as I was cleaning off my desk for the year.
Here are the quotes I used in 2015:
January:
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
– Doyle
February:
Never confuse movement with action.
– Hemingway
March:
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
– Jim Rohn
April:
Courage is grace under pressure.
– Hemingway
May:
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
– Thomas Paine
June:
If I panic, everyone else panics.
– Kobe Bryant
July:
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
– Napoleon
August:
I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
-Adam Sandler
(Let’s just say I had a lot of fun at BSides, Blackhat and Defcon this year.)
September:
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
– Yogi Berra
October:
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
– Marcus Aurelius
November:
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
– Theodore Roosevelt
December:
Have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.
– Herb Kelleher
…and yes I know doing this now apparently makes me dumb.
My Guiding Quotes of 2015
