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It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?
There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
What are you grateful for right now? Gratitude can shift your energy, raise your vibration, and make all your next moments even better.
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.
The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?