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I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like it.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
You can’t control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can’t control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.
You will learn more from your failures than your successes – so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you’re never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
One day, I will tell my story… where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.
The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people’s expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That’s how your career takes off – it’s just consistency and time.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It’s impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You’re an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I didn’t want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother‘s car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man‘s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
People from outside don’t know how difficult it is to be goalkeeper.
So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: I can’t make Tuesdays.’
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.
Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can’t necessarily get any other way.
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.
Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.
You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you’re remembered for. It’s how you’re measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it’s at.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.
Learn how to treat your vegetables with the love and kindness that they deserve.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
People think because I’m a nice person I’m a weak person. But I don’t think being nice means you don’t know how to take tough decisions.
Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, ‘I remember, I remember the house where I was born.’ I don’t even know what mine looked like!
It’s about learning how to slow down… I think this Covid environment that we’re in there’s a lot of sadness and a lot of pressure going on in terms of the uncertainty, but what it is teaching us or forcing us to do is appreciate the small things: be grateful for a slower pace of life.
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don’t think about how hard it’s going to be.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.
A lot of people don’t see, when we lose and go through tough times, how upset and disappointed we are.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
We teach people how to treat us.
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.
I’m responsible for what I say, but I’m not responsible about how people interpret my situation.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
I know I haven‘t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
I don’t care how people judge me.
Few people know how to be old.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you’ll build a great team.
You can’t control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back.
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild.
There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Anyone can be a DJ but it’s understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
It doesn’t matter if we grow old and get replaced by a new younger generation as long as there is still someone talking about us because they will still remember how we shone so bright.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
I’ve got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don’t know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
It’s crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
It’s remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
There’s a lot of things we go through and we don’t even know why… At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that’s kind of how I take that.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
It isn’t what I do, but how I do it. It isn’t what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s how I live my life.
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. ‘How are you’ is a greeting, not a question.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!
I’ve learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I’m looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
No matter what, no matter how I feel, always bring effort.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
No matter how much success you’re having, you can’t continue working together if you can’t communicate.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you’re going to fail.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter’s school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners – language, behavior, and actions – are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
Having fun is definitely how you’re going to keep yourself loose, and be at your best.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.
I’m interested in internationalism. It’s the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn’t sufficient any more. It’s about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
At Microsoft, we’re aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it’s seen as empowering.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.
Epigenetics doesn’t change the genetic code, it changes how that’s read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won’t be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
It’s not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
That’s how I was taught. That’s how I was raised, to ignore the stupidity, continue on and do what I need to do.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
People say, ‘Dream big!’ – but you have to think about the logistics. It’s not just coming up with a great idea; it’s how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter – it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
How sweet it is!
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
I’m my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error… failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually… you roll with the punches.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
Don’t give up, no matter how hard it is. Things are going to be tough down the road, but the more work you put in, the more achievement you’re going to get out of it.
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives – and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.
Every How is carried by a What.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.
The eyes are so telling. That’s how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.
Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
At Uniqlo, we’re thinking ahead. We’re thinking about how to create new, innovative products… and sell that to everyone.
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
It’s about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That’s the biggest thing I was brought up on from my parents.
No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.
Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.
Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.
I’ve gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it’s, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you’re having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.
Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
