Archives - August 2017

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story."

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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.

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

The richest person in the world --- in fact all the riches in the world --- couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Whenever you leave behind failure you’re doing good. If you think everything you’ve done is great, you’re probably dumb.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.