Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
My message is just showing people how I came from nothing.
I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don’t know how to explain it more. It’s universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain – not pain, arguments. I’ve grown quite comfortable with being at war.
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my boat. While ups and downs are a part of everyone’s journey, how you face it makes you the person or artiste you are.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
In the NBA, there’s always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn’t have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
DJ Khaled most definitely knows how to rock a party.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
At Microsoft, we’re aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it’s seen as empowering.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
People think because I’m a nice person I’m a weak person. But I don’t think being nice means you don’t know how to take tough decisions.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.
People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter – it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
