“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
Richard Bach Quotes
Born 1936
American author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Illusions".
25 quotesAbout Richard Bach on Wikipedia
“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it.”
“The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.”
“Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.”
“Any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed.”
“I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.”
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom.”
“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.”
“Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.”
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.'”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.”
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.”
