No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.
It’s not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Difficult things aren’t easy, but they’re worth it.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
A nice person is a ‘yes’ person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn’t afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.
There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.
I don’t blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don’t have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Life’s complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.
I believe that good things come to those who work.
The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that’s how you create things that are totally new.
Small things amuse small minds.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that’s just how things go.
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.
I don’t know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.
Don’t focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
It’s the small things that will make you successful.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Life is short, so go for things you enjoy.
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
It’s the little things that count, hundreds of ’em.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
