"If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow"
“The destiny of man is to be more and more human.”
Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
"The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is."
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
"You are pure positive energy seeking joyful expansion."
"My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe."
"The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers"
"All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality."
"Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
“The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.”
Our mind always thinks with images.
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
“Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.”
"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.
Some animals are clever and mean, like the fox; others, like the dog, are fierce but also friendly and affectionate. Some are gentle and easy to train, like the elephant; some feel shy and are watchful, like the goose. Some are vain and like to show off, like the peacock.
"If you are resisting anything, you are focused upon it, pushing against it, and activating the vibration of it – and therefore attracting it."
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
"The faster you go, the shorter you are."
There are several hundred people who stayed in the Ebola-affected countries and continued to do the work, put themselves at great risk because medical workers are the most likely to be infected because they're helping out when the person's health is deteriorating, including quite a bit of bleeding as they're getting very, very sick.
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
"If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine."
"Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life."
Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.
"The best revenge is massive success."
"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind."
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
The first principle of all action is leisure.
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights that is the way of a whole human being.
A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
"When you do talk about yourself, or to yourself... try to picture you talking to your own daughter, or your younger sister. Because you would tell your younger sister or your daughter that she is beautiful, and you wouldn't be lying. Because she is. And so are you."
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
"Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken."
"You can't have a physical experience without there first being a vibrational one."
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.
There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
"You can't get sick enough to help sick people get better. You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive."
"I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff."
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
“Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.”
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
"It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes."
To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.
“The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.”
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .
"All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it."
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."
"Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day."
"When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction."
"The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do."
All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.
"Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent."
“If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.”
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
“World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.”
“We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.”
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.
We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
“No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.”
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
Truth and things close to truth are understood by the same part of the mind; people also have a natural sense for what is true and usually find it. So, someone good at guessing the truth is likely good at guessing probabilities.
I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
"Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane."
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
"Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak."
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
"We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow."
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
