quotes 7

— Franklin P. Jones

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
— Erica Jong

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
— Erica Jong

"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."
— Michael Jordan

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
— James Joyce

"He who looks outside dreams, he who looks inside awakens."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience."
— Philippe Kahn

"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."
— Nikos Kazantzakis

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
— Sam Keen

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
— Helen Keller

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
— Donald Kendall

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Don't agonize, organize."
— Florynce Kennedy

"Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple."
— David Keuck

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."
— John Maynard Keynes

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Intellectuals solves problems, geniuses prevent them."
— Albert Einstein

"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips."
— Elsa Lanchester

"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."
— Georges Louis Leclerc

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!"
— Clive Staples Lewis

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"
— Vince Lombardi

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
— Vince Lombardi

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
— Vince Lombardi

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
— Jack London

"Man is a universe within himself."
— Bob Marley

"Twenty YEARS from now you will be more DISAPPOINTED by the things you DIDN'T do then by the ONES you did. So throw off the BOWLINES, sail away from this safe HARBOR, catch the trade WINDS in your SAILS. EXPLORE. DREAM. DISCOVER."
— Mark Twain

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
— Abraham Maslow

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
— Henri Matisse

"...society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
— Mignon McLaughlin

"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
— Archibald McLeish

"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil."
— The Prophet Mohammad

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."
— Claude Monet

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
— James Douglas Morrison

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."
— Keith Rupert Murdoch

"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf."
— Native American Proverb

"The unconscious is our best collaborator."
— Mike Nichols

"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
— Richard M. Nixon

"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures."
— Charles C. Noble

"Education is a vaccine for violence."
— Edward James Olmos

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
— Satchel Paige

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
— Thomas Paine

"Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.’"
— Dave Parnas

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Blaise Pascal

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."
— Louis Pasteur

"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams."
— Pier Paolo Pasolini

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
— General George S. Patton

"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come."
— Perry Paxton

"Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible."
— James W. Pence

"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led."
— H. Ross Perot

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
— Plato

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
— Alexander Pope

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
— Pope John XXIII

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
— John Powell

"The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."
— Colin Powell

"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes."
— Wolfgang Puck

"There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them."
— Mario Puzo

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
— G. Randolf

"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
— Nancy Reagan

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
— Carl Sandburg

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
— Carl Sandburg

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
— Michael Althsuler

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
— Ambrose Redmoon

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
— Christopher Reeve

"Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it."
— Wilhelm Reich

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
— Jules Renard

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
— Eddie Rickenbacker

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
— John D. Rockefeller

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
— Will Rogers

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well."
— Joseph Ross

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people."
— Leo Rosten

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
— Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."
— Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
— David Russell

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."
— Rosalyn S. Yalow

"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men."
— Saadi

"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing."
— Richard Yates