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“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities, but it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
Eric Hoffer

“Live the questions.”
Rilke

“Difficulty is a measure of effort, not of impossibility.”
Alistair Russell

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it’s the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer

“When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.”
John Shedd

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.”
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

“If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”
Julia Sorel

“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
Albert Szent- Gyorgi

“Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one, and they all stink.”
US Marine proverb

“It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.”
US Marine proverb

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Voltaire

“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
Voltaire

“Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting it.”
Mae West

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”
Dennis Wholey

“A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde

“The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Oscar Wilde

“I have the simplest tastes. I an always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde

“Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.”
Oscar Wilde

“The thing you really believe in always happens… and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
Rene Descartes, from ‘Discours de la Methode’

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
H. G. Wells

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.”
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

“The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’.”
Unknown

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
Carl Sagan

“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts.”
G.B. Burgin

“We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?”
Neils Bohr

“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
H. H. Munro (Saki)

“Make everything a simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Goethe

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US office of Patents, 1899

“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”
Mark Twain

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
Niccolo Machiavelli, ‘The Prince’

“Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.”
Michael J Gelb

“A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.”
Michael J. Gelb

“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”
Arnold H. Glasow

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Arthur Godfrey

“If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.”
Sir James Goldsmith

“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”
Baltasar Gracian

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
Wayne Gretzky

“You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
H. R. Haldeman

“In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.”
Paul Harvey

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
Aldous Huxley

“It’s better to wear out than rust out.”
Richard Chamberland

“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”
Leonardo Da Vinci

“Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.”
Charles A. Dana

“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.”
William Feather

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”
Charles Dickens

“This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”
Charles Dickens

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.”
Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein

“If I had only known, I would have become a locksmith.”
Albert Einstein

“Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle

“Nothing in fine print is ever good news.”
Andy Rooney

“Irony is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants, and then burn a hole in the coat.”
Unknown

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
Edgar Allen Poe

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
Herm Albright

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
Henri Bergson

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Circumstances!?! I make circumstances.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.”
Les Brown

“A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveller on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home.”
Carl Burns

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
Erica Jong

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
John F Kennedy

“Rarely do we find men who are willing to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
Martin Luther King, Jr

“When I’m ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds of my time thinking about him and what he is going to say.”
Abraham Lincoln

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.”
Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Spock (Star Trek)

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven’t got it.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.”
Unknown