Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that’s all part of how I express my identity.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
It’s pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it’s just about how you react to them.
How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
You don’t realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they’re feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.
I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like it.
Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance… has helped to determine your path through life.
It’s a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn’t matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What’s critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That’s what helps keep me going.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
I’m not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
People should debate. They shouldn’t be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that’s how we learn.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
