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"Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place."
"The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing"
"The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all."
"I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together."
"As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'"
"When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end."
"The path is the goal."
"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition)."
"Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone"
"Most safely shall you tread the middle path."
"Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path."
"The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards."
"Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation."
"Caution is the path to mediocrity."
"That path leads ever down into stagnation."
"I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction."
"The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration."
"I have met the soul walking upon my path."
"All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality."
"The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument."
