Quotes
Last updated on August 8, 2009
"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."
This quote is from the closing scene in Vanilla Sky is one of my favorites. I love the quote because no matter where you are in life you can always make the decision at this very moment, no matter how small, to change the course of where you are going. It is a great reminder to always be present in the moment and not live in the past or worry about the future. The only life you have is the one you are living at this very moment - and you always have the power to make a decision right now that will change the course of your life forever.
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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
"Nature’s way is simple and easy, but men prefer what is intricate and artificial."
"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."
"The journey is the reward."
"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few."
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
"I’ve had many troubles in my life, most of which never happened."
"The secret to success is to make a vocation your vacation."
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
"It’s better to burn out, than to fade away."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
"In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath."
"Dreams haunt you until you live them."
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
"Those who believe they can and those who believe they can’t are both right."
"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake."
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change."
"Become so uncomfortable with the status quo that you feel like your failing if you did what you did yesterday."
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
"The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."
"Be loyal to ideas, not to people."
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
"Lose your mind, and come to your senses."
"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe."
"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
"Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm."
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
"Energy flows where attention goes."
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
"When the vision on the inside becomes more compelling and powerful than what you observe on the outside then the universe is at your command."
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"I measure the quality of the questions I ask, by the number of which I have no answer."