"Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe."
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.
"We can invent only with memory."
“Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
"Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television."
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.
The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.
"Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it."
"Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake."
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
It's quick to want to be friends, but true friendship takes time to grow.
Your customers get better when you do.
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
"The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you."
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
"One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one’s time."
"The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten."
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
"What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count."
"Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war."
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.
"I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write."
"No one is ever satisfied where he is."
"Joy is not in things; it is in us."
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."
Our characters are the result of our conduct.
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
"When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is."
“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.”
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
"The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer."
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
“The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.”
"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow halfhearted success that breeds bitterness all around"
"The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more Well-Being flows to you-and you get to choose the details of how it flows."
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
"Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable."
"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one."
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
Bridge is the king of all card games.
"You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry someone you cannot live without."
"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."
If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.
"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
"I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman."
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
"Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used."
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
I think there will be PCs at every price point.
"There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more."
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
"Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken."
"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
"You have no creative power within the lives of others, for they are offering their own vibrations, which equal their own point of attraction, just as you are offering your own vibrations, which equal your own point of attraction."
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.”
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells."
My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.
Evils draw men together.
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.
