"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
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"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."
"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
"When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."
"The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence."
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
"Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me."
"Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe."
"Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you"
"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."
"When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think."
"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other."
"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that."