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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art
is knowing which ones to keep.
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe. You can't take a taxi.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub
them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a
reputation for subtlety.
You are never given a wish without also being given
the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look
on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
Any good history book is mainly just a long list of
mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea
when it is the only one you have.
I
sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on
their payroll to test things.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of
them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as
clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases,
it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience
when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your
mind.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in
the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be
solved by the level of thinking that created them.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one
finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man
who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be
his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are
few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The
man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but
rather the way people think things are.
When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool
not to peek.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you
are right.
I have learned through bitter experience the one
supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into
energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can
move the world.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing
because it is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because
it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a
politician's car.
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you
happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to
its original dimensions.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must
fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and
the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not
thus handicapped.
In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the
second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the
fifth--teaching others.
Education can be defined as working with people, young and old, to prepare them to live in the future. The future may be bright. The future may be gray. But, most importantly we must insure that there will be a future.
A great many people think they are thinking when they
are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people.
I like the dreams of the future better than the
history of the past.
Can a blue man sing the whites?
The mere absence of war is not peace.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is
solved.
I wish I'd drunk more champagne. [last words]
Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up
to you.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your
subject and your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace... A
soul generated by love.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind
marvelously.
People who are resting on their laurels are wearing
them on the wrong end.
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of
stupidity.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve
it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot long retain it.
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing
what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without
the plane.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever
has.
The great composer does not set to work because he is
inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks.
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Expenditure rises to meet income.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of
destruction.
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly
unconnected.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to
sell your parrot to the town gossip.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in
a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate
war.
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to
cross and which to burn.
I have realized that my real self is a greater entity
than any possible post or title.
Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving
up is what makes it permanent.
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from
both sides.
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.
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders.
Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right
song at the right moment could change history.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called
cynicism by those who haven't got it.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel
that way yourself once in awhile.
We can't leave the haphazard to chance.
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not
for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in
the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts,
emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so
many of them to choose from.
Unless life is lived for others, it is not
worthwhile.
I think that maybe if women and children were in
charge we would get somewhere.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to
complain.
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of
the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he
surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
A man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea
succeeds.
There is no defense or security for any of us except
in the highest intelligence and development of all.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent
injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper
when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can
only advise his client to plant vines.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
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