Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language… it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Change in all things is sweet.
Things do not change; we change.
You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Things don’t always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that’s what I’ve done – I’ve tried to keep my composure, even when things aren’t going the way I’d like.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‘good,’ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can’t throw things together at a farmer’s market. When you’re working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
The good and bad things are what form us as people… change makes us grow.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
