“We
are told that talent creates its own opportunities, but it sometimes seems
that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own
talents.”
Eric Hoffer
“Live
the questions.”
Rilke
“Difficulty
is a measure of effort, not of impossibility.”
Alistair Russell
“Example
is not the main thing in influencing others; it’s the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer
“When
there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.”
John Shedd
“In
theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice,
there is.”
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
“If
you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any
chances.”
Julia Sorel
“Discovery
is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else
has thought.”
Albert Szent- Gyorgi
“Excuses
are like assholes, everyone has one, and they all stink.”
US Marine proverb
“It
is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.”
US Marine proverb
“It
is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Voltaire
“Doubt
is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
Voltaire
“Everything’s
in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is
the first step towards getting it.”
Mae West
“Expecting
the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little
like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”
Dennis Wholey
“A
visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before
the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
“The
only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of
any use to oneself.”
Oscar Wilde
“I
have the simplest tastes. I an always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nothing
is so aggravating than calmness.”
Oscar Wilde
“The
thing you really believe in always happens… and the belief in a
thing makes it happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Each
problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other
problems.”
Rene Descartes, from ‘Discours de la Methode’
“Moral
indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
H. G. Wells
“Talent
does what it can; genius does what it must.”
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
“The
difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’
is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’
– the pig was ‘committed’.”
Unknown
“If
you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe.”
Carl Sagan
“It
is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have
one’s doubts.”
G.B. Burgin
“We
all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?”
Neils Bohr
“A
little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
H. H. Munro (Saki)
“Make
everything a simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein
“When
ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Goethe
“Everything
that can be invented has been invented.”
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US office of Patents, 1899
“Denial
ain’t just a river in Egypt.”
Mark Twain
“It
is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
Niccolo Machiavelli, ‘The Prince’
“Confusion
is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.”
Michael J Gelb
“A
champion views resistance as a gift of energy.”
Michael J. Gelb
“The
fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“Even
if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just
sit there.”
Arthur Godfrey
“If
you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.”
Sir James Goldsmith
“Never
contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”
Baltasar Gracian
“You
miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“You
can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
H. R. Haldeman
“In
times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been
times like these.”
Paul Harvey
“Most
human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
Aldous Huxley
“It’s
better to wear out than rust out.”
Richard Chamberland
“If
you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever.
Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“Kites
rise highest against the wind; not with it.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been
the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Anyone
who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence;
he is just using his memory.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Fight
for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth
or the only truth.”
Charles A. Dana
“Conditions
are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable
do nothing.”
William Feather
“No
one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone
else.”
Charles Dickens
“This
is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”
Charles Dickens
Mediocrity
knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can
labour in freedom.”
Albert Einstein
“Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“If
I had only known, I would have become a locksmith.”
Albert Einstein
“Common
sense is genius dressed in working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If
opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
“Nothing
in fine print is ever good news.”
Andy Rooney
“Irony
is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants, and then burn a hole in
the coat.”
Unknown
“If
you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is
to be remembered.”
Edgar Allen Poe
“A
positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.”
Herm Albright
“Think
like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
Henri Bergson
“History is the version of past events that people have decided
to agree upon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Glory
is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Circumstances!?!
I make circumstances.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the
stars.”
Les Brown
“A
child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place.
A traveller on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home.”
Carl Burns
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish
we didn’t.”
Erica Jong
“When
written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters.
One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
John F Kennedy
“Rarely
do we find men who are willing to engage in hard, solid thinking. There
is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
“When
I’m ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking
about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds of my time thinking
about him and what he is going to say.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You
can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of
the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Things
may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Tact
is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Greetings,
I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater
than the sum of both of us.”
Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Spock (Star Trek)
“The
power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
haven’t got it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Nostalgia
ain’t what it used to be.”
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