Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
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.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that’s the most reward thing in the world.
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something.
Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
My message is that it’s never too late. If it’s something you want to do or if it’s important to you, go for it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
It’s like Forrest Gump said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates.’ Your career is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That’s the exciting part – it’s an adventure in itself.
Nobody’s going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
It’s a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.
The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to.
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
When your dreams include service to others – accomplishing something that contributes to others – it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.
Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.
Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ 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.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.
The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
If you’re doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
Without promotion, something terrible happens… nothing!
Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
When we are touched by something it’s as if we’re being brushed by an angel’s wings.
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Never give up on something you believe in.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
