My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
My moms always told me, ‘How long you gonna play the victim?’ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!
We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
It’s crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives – and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‘I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.’ ‘Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.’ ‘They probably don’t even realize how they sound.’
To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.
I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter’s school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
That’s kind of how I am – a roller coaster of emotions.
In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
Life doesn’t just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
It’s not how you start the season, it’s how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that’s what you play for. You don’t play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’
If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson’s. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there’s freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn’t have otherwise found myself in.
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
On a good day I think I’m handsome, on an average day I’m average. I’m a man’s man so I don’t necessarily know how cute we’re supposed to be.
I love how it feels to unwind by the ocean.
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
To me, it doesn’t matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
There’s no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.
It’s not what you wear it’s how you wear it, is what I say.
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn’t because they’re trying to fool you or because they’re hypocrites. It’s because they badly want to be that thing, and so they’ll try to be it.
