If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. |
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet. |
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. |
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. |
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. |
Know thyself. A Yale undergraduate left on his door a placard for the janitor on which was written, "Call me at 7 o'clock; it is absolutely necessary that I get up at seven. Make no mistake. Keep knocking until I answer." Under this he had written: "Try again at ten." |
Literature is the immortal part of history. |
Love is a creative force; it sees what is good, brings it out, encourages it, develops it. They say that Love is blind; but it is blind only to defects; it has in reality the sharpest and clearest vision, for it sees beauty where others see only ugliness; it sees courage in obscure corners, and in commonplace minds it detects and recognizes the seeds of nobility. One cannot become a good critic of music unless one loves music; one will never understand men and women unless one begins by loving them. |
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense |
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute |
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation. |
The average Englishman does not see why a stranger should accost him with jocosity - many Englishmen do not see why a stranger should accost them at all |
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. |
The central law of the socalled science of Economics is selfishness. A whole science is built on one foundation -- that every man in the world will get all he can for himself. The subject is naturally studied not from an ethical, but from a scientific standpoint. Life is a race. |
The curse of modern life, the poison that turns honey to gall, the cause of the dull, stupid, despondent mood in which so many people live and move and have their being, is a lack of appreciation. Many go through life with their eyes, ears, and minds closed. |