Peter Cundall Quotes

#1. Circles and getting rid of everything else.

James C. Collins

#2. Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

John Wooden

#3. If you can't avoid it, there is no use denying it by delaying it.

Sartika Kurniali

#4. It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

Peter Cundall

#5. So often in our society, we are encouraged to disregard our fears and to simply "think positive thoughts". This is nothing more than engaging in denial which is not only ineffective, it is unhealthy.

Robin S. Sharma

#6. If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.

Du Mu

#7. I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.

Nicholas Hoult

#8. Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

Peter Cundall

#9. My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

Peter Cundall

#10. I have an optimism about what people are willing to do. The greatest force in the world today, believe it or not, are these countless groups of people in every country almost ... that are doing things to protect their local environment and to try and protect the earth.

Peter Cundall

#11. If you're sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.

Simon Pegg

#12. There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

Nicole Krauss

#13. There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Eric Clapton

#14. Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

William Shakespeare

#15. It is a good life, if you're doing what you like doing.

Peter Cundall

#16. Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

Walter Darby Bannard