But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye WestNever mistake motion for action.
Ernest HemingwayThe presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
Jordan PetersonHe is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
Mahatma GandhiWhat lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.
Tom BradyWhenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
Lou HoltzLife is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry FordCorrecting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-PowellI grew up cursing a lot.
Adam SandlerYou must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Thich Nhat HanhI wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.
George LucasEvery one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
VoltaireCriticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston ChurchillThe only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore RooseveltYou can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.
Eckhart TolleIn various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
Thomas SowellAn identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James BaldwinWisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William ShakespeareNo driver is perfect.
Lando NorrisIn this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.
AuroraBe as you wish to seem.
SocratesFondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander PopeRight discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand RussellI don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
Dolly PartonA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostEarly on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles BukowskiTrue praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMost of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.
Jocko WillinkPeople who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen HawkingI felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.
J. K. RowlingI had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody AllenLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawThis happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Hermann HesseTake from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David ThoreauAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark TwainEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinSelf-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac AsimovWe do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EpictetusOver the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.
Joyce MeyerAs long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.
Robert KiyosakiI feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.
Kevin HartMum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘
Terry PratchettAll men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. MenckenHe who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. JohnsonDon’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob MarleyIf you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Stephen CoveyMy business acumen is definitely growing.
Kevin HartThat’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘
Maya AngelouEverybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston ChurchillHis priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. RowlingWhy should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
Albert CamusProverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous HuxleyThe best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett