Writer. Speaker. Nice Guy.
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant For what am I grateful? I am grateful for many things. I am always grateful for my health, for my wife, and for my kids. I am grateful for the opportunity to constantly push up against at my own boundaries. I am […]
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.” – Thomas Szasz How’s the serenity? With love, Israel. xo
“Everything yields to diligence.” – Antiphanes Don’t you think? With love, Israel. xo
“You can get everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar Today’s quote comes back to the age-old conversation around being of service. If we each do our darndest to simply be of service, or even be useful, we’ll be able to find our own way […]
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale Today’s IQ was inspired by an amazing lecture Belinda discovered by a man called […]
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” – Chuck Palahniuk Today’s quote was originally going to be purely about relationships, because I’ve been having this sporadic email conversation with an amazing guy in the USA called Chris Brogan. (You really should […]
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thanks, Michael. I just returned from a delightful weekend away with my Dad’s side of the family. It has left me tired, sleepy, and a little frayed. (Well, mostly that was the coffee and the late-night […]
Hi friends! I have to apologise for the last two days of IQ down-time… I’ve had some massive technical problems with my hosting company. My Inspirational Quotographs site (israelsmith.net) and my photography business website (israelsmith.com) both got hacked and were offline for most of yesterday, and despite my best efforts, things weren’t fixed properly when […]
