I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner.
If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
No one’s body is up for comment. No matter how small, how curvy, how round, how flat. If you love you, then I love you.
At Uniqlo, we’re thinking ahead. We’re thinking about how to create new, innovative products… and sell that to everyone.
This is how memories are made… by going with the flow.
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
Once you’ve been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
No matter how much success you’re having, you can’t continue working together if you can’t communicate.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside.
It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
I’m proud of my work and how far I’ve come, and I’m proud of the way that I did it.
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
There’s always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That’s how you stay in the race.
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, ‘I remember, I remember the house where I was born.’ I don’t even know what mine looked like!
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The middle of ‘America’s Women’ is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
It doesn’t matter if we grow old and get replaced by a new younger generation as long as there is still someone talking about us because they will still remember how we shone so bright.
An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
It’s almost mind-boggling how time flies.
No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don’t support you.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
There’s nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
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.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. ‘Educated’ is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family.
You really don’t have to be rich to be sosy. It’s just really a mentality and how you want to carry yourself. You enjoy life.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
