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Words of Wisdom - QuotesIf you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. A man often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Nothing can harm a good man, in life or after death. The very things that we think are holding us down are holding us up. True power is knowing that you can, but you don't. We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside. "Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. Opportunity doesn't knock, it only presents itself after you beat down the door. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be? If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damned fool about it. Make it and spend it. Money is the means to the end. In itself, it doesn't mean anything. When you look at your total expenditure over your lifetime, you don't want to quibble over a few dollars. The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one. I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at a rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundredth blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he want to live humbly for one. Down not the guy who is down today; but cheer him in his sorrow. For this world is a mean old world, and you may be down tomorrow. To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. When you think that bad things only happen to the other guy, remember that to everyone else in the world, you are the other guy. Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. We want to go forward, but which way are we facing? The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts inspire your words. Be careful of your words, for your words precede your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your habits, for your habits build your character. Be careful of your character, for your character decides your destiny. You can lead a men by his penis but it's the wrong way to tame him. Ally McBeal Know thyself. Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. |
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