"You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it."
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"All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession."
"When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play."
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
"Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost."
"It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general."
"Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that."
"Failure is the chance to do it better next time."
"You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it."
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt."
"Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time."
"Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one."
"Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure."
"I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right."
"One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!"
"The next message you need is always right where you are."
"Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters."
"Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it. If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the “different” you want to create in your life? You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life."
"The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting."
"We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I."