It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
You'll see it when you believe it.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, but they also undermine our health.
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.
— Voltaire
I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
— Voltaire
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.
Technology is teaching us to be human again.
The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart.
Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
We are wiser than we know.
Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Wisdom begins at the end.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Light tomorrow with today!
Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
He who is contented is rich.
— Laozi
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
— Laozi
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.