“My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.”
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Wise Quotes — page 87 of 916
“There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.”
“A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.”
“Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.”
“In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.”
“In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.”
“I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.”
“There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.”
“Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.”
“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
“The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.”
“My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.”
“Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.”
“The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.”
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
“The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .”
“Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.”
“Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.”
“A good quote is worth a thousand words.”
“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.”