You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. Jodi Picoult
It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer. Gerald Brenan
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. William Somerset Maugham
Trust your reader, don’t try to describe things. Give a
hint and they will fulfill this hint with their own imagination. Paulo
Coelho
The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so. Ray Bradbury
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most
of all, endurance. James Baldwin
In a story it’s the scene – the setting / characters /
action / interaction / dialogue / feelings – that makes us hold our
breath, and cry .. and turn the page to find out what happens next. And
so, until the scene ends, each sentence should lead to the next
sentence. Ursula K. Le Guin
Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have
to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process,
but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as
you may have noticed. J.K. Rowling
I’ve been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so
I can’t really say where the desire came from; I’ve always had it. My
breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot
of publishers turned it down. J.K. Rowling
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose
track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps.
Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. John Steinbeck
As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this
as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I
write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets,
dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know
them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify
about them. Ursula K. Le Guin
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be
a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard,
constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as
writer. Ray Bradbury
The more I’m let alone and not worried the better I can function. Ernest Hemingway
I go out to my little office, where I’ve got a
manuscript, and the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that,
and it’s like getting on a taxiway. I’m able to go through and revise it
and put myself – click – back into that world. Stephen King
When I’m working I work every day, three, four hours, and
I try to get those six pages and I try to get them faily clean. Stephen
King
All my life as a writer I have been committed to the idea
that in fiction the story value holds dominance over every other facet
of the writer’s craft; characterization, theme, mood, none of these
things is anything if the story is dull. And if the story does hold you,
all else can be forgiven. Stephen King
On first drafts: It is completely raw, the sort of thing I
feel free to do with the door shut — it’s the story undressed, standing
up in nothing but its socks and undershorts. Stephen King
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it
of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it
sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to
your friend, if he be an author especially. Amos Bronson Alcott
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the
creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book
quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep
in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the
sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything. Virginia
Woolf
Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the
book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. Annie
Dillard
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him. Ray Bradbury
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
The teacher who awakens and encourages in students a
sense of possibility and responsibility is, to me, the ultimate leader.
Stanley McChrystal
Knowledge is useless to executives unless it has been translated into deeds. Peter F. Drucker
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. Rosabeth Moss Kantor
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy –
leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders. Stephen
R. Covey
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking
charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated
person. Warren Bennis
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett
For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s
somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always
necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and
school. Oprah Winfrey
It’s not the absence of leadership potential that
inhibits the development of more leaders; it’s the persistence of the
myth that leadership can’t be learned. This haunting myth is a far more
powerful deterrent to leadership development than is the nature of the
person or the basics of the leadership process. James Kouzes and Barry
Posner
Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life. Marcus Aurelius
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their
lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. Warren
Bennis
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be
your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from
everyone else. Sara Blakely
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who
inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a
world that no longer exists. Warren Bennis
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be
content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of
standing out. Warren Bennis
Being humble doesn’t mean that you lack self-confidence,
or that you never stand up for your own opinions or principles. It does
mean recognizing that you don’t know everything – and that you’re
willing to learn from others. Justin Bariso
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that
intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share
your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. Jerry Porras
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it. Wendy Kopp
There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
A wise parent allows the children to make mistakes. It is good for them once in a while to burn their fingers.
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
Real education
has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated. This
can never be done by packing ill-assorted and unwanted information into
the heads of the pupils. It becomes a dead weight crushing all
originality in them and turning them into mere automata.
An intellect that is developed through the medium of
socially useful labour will be an instrument for service and will not
easily be led astray or fall into devious paths.
I hold that, as the largest part of our time is devoted
to labour for earning our bread, our children must from their infancy be
taught the dignity of such labour.
Craft, art, health and education should all be integrated into one scheme.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Part 1. Our first duty is that we should not be a burden
on society, i.e., we should be self-dependent. From this point of view
self-sufficiency itself is a kind of service.
Part 2. After becoming self-sufficient we shall use our
spare time for the service of others. If all become self-sufficient,
none will be in trouble.
Given the right kind of teachers, our children will be
taught the dignity of labour and learn to regard it as an integral part
and a means of their intellectual growth, and to realize that it is
patriotic to pay for their training through their labour.
It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.
Education must be of a new type for the sake of the creation of a new world.
Character cannot be built with mortar and stone. It
cannot be built by hands other than your own. The Principal and the
Professor cannot give you character from the pages of books. Character
building comes from their very lives really speaking, it must come from
within yourselves.
When it is remembered that the primary aim of all
education is, or should be, the moulding of the character of pupils, a
teacher who has a character to keep need not lost heart.
If teachers impart all the knowledge in the world to
their students but inculcate not truth and purity among them, they will
have betrayed them and instead of raising them set them on the downward
road to perdition.
Knowledge without character is a power for evil only, as
seen in the instances of so many talented thieves and ‘gentlemen
rascals’ in the world.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
There can be no knowledge without humility and the will to learn.
Literary training by itself adds not an inch to one’s
moral height and that character-building is independent of literary
training.
The students should be, above all, humble and correct… The greatest to remain great has to be the lowliest by choice.
The utterly false idea that intelligence can be developed
only through book-reading should give place to the truth that the
quickest development of the mind can be achieved by artisan’s work being
learnt in a scientific manner.
We have up to now concentrated on stuffing children’s
minds with all kinds information, without ever thinking of stimulating
and developing them. Let us now cry a halt and concentrate on education
the child properly through manual work, not as a side activity, but as
the prime means of intellectual training.
You have to train the boys in one occupation or another.
Round this special occupation you will train up his mind, his body, his
handwriting, his artistic sense, and so on. He will be master of the
craft he learns.
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy,
religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as
necessary as secular instruction.
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away
the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger
for confession.
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we
achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come
by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is
learnt in the school of adversity.
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.
Information without emotion isn’t retained.
Much like you would train your body, you can train your mind.
To learn is to live. I see no other option. Once the learning curve flattens out, I get bored.
Though you can upgrade your brain domestically, traveling
and relocating provides unique conditions that make progress much
faster.
Learning is such an addiction and compulsion of mine that
I rarely travel somewhere without deciding first how I’ll obsess on a
specific skill.
It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
Thinking is mostly just asking yourself questions and answering them.
I know nothing. I am a beginner. But I ask a lot of questions.
BrainQuicken was a real learning on the job MBA.
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
Quite aside from the fact that it is impossible to
understand a foreign culture without understanding its language,
acquiring a new language transforms the human experience and makes you
aware your own language: your own thoughts.
Information is useless if it is not applied to something
important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
Here are a few books that have affected me or made me
think differently in the last few years. None of them are directly
related to business: Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach — this is an
important book, originally recommended to me by a neuroscience PhD who
benefited from it. The Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda. The
Body Keeps The Score by Van Der Kolk.
The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons,
titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve
maximized 1 or 2 strengths.
Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are
unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools
are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of
soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know?
I’ve been there.
If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow.
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli
The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. Robert J. Kibbee
What we become depends on what we read after all of the
professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a
collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness
without a correspondingly great library… When this is no longer true,
then will our civilization have come to an end. Lawrence Clark Powell
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of
teaching – without these a university cannot exist. Robert Maynard
Hutchins
A university’s essential character is that of being a
center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for
anything else. Richard Hofstadter
The university most worthy of rational admiration is that
one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most
positively furthered, and most richly fed. William James
One learns more from listening than speaking. And both
the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have
much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. Thor
Heyerdahl
The task of a university is the creation of the future,
so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can
affect the issue. Alfred North Whitehead
There are few earthly things more beautiful
than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to
know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. John
Masefield
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. David Horowitz
The best art divides the audience. Rick Rubin
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. Ralph Caplan
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it. Tim Cook
To make something new in fashion, you have to stay in a little bit of mad place and do a revolution. Alessandro Michele
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. Austin Kleon
Adequate form [in art] requires: 1) Individuality rather
than imitative repetitiousness 2) Brevity rather than bulkiness 3)
Clarity rather than obscurity 4) Simplicity of expression rather than
complexity of form. Bruce Lee
It is not daily increase but daily decrease – hack away
the unessential! The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.
Bruce Lee
It is indeed difficult to convey simplicity. Bruce Lee
Simplicity and complexity need each other. John Maeda
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act
well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life. Brigham
Young
Education is not the piling on of learning, information,
data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but
is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. Thomas Moore
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
Education is the only solution. Education first. Malala Yousafzai
Education is light. Ignorance is darkness. Ziauddin Yousafzai
Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. Eric Fromm
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Education is the mother of leadership. Wendell Willkie
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. Karl Kraus
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on. Robert Frost
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Laurence J. Peter
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to
make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their
horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if
possible. Robert M. Hutchins
Education is a human right with immense power to
transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy
and sustainable human development. Kofi Annan
Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
Education is of far greater importance than heredity in forming character. Desiderius Erasmus
Education is the vaccine for violence. Edward James Olmos
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. Ernie Fletcher
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. Lyndon B. Johnson
Education is the best solution to fight many other issues
as well. Through education you can fight child labor. Through education
you can fight child trafficking. Through education you can also fight
poverty. Malala Yousafzai
Education is the best economic policy there is. Tony Blair
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
Education is a vital human right and plays a key role in human, social, and economic development. Global Partnership For Education
Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open
children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.
Sir Anthony Seldon
I am still learning. Michelangelo
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo
Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. Unknown
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes. Guy Kawasaki
Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children’s lives. Jon Porter
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. Fred Rodgers
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin
Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award. Prince William
I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Adam Hamilton
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers
teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the
educational system. Sidney Hook
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude
to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much
necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing
plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend
their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for
tomorrow. Solomon Ortiz
Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in
America. They’re building our nation. And we should appreciate them,
respect them, and pay them well. Jim Hunt
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. Mike Huckabee
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. Kemal Ataturk
Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that. Kevin James
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. Jacques Barzun
A teacher is a person who never says anything once. Howard Nemerov
Kids’ views are often just as valid as the teachers’. The best teachers are the ones that know that. Morley Safer
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids
working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my
father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next
generation. Ann Curry
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always
say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of
children. Arne Duncan
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. Karl Menninger
I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. Ann Bancroft
I don’t think most teachers realize how much impact they have. Scott Hamilton
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. Elbert Hubbard
I always felt I needed to teach to survive. Leonard Baskin
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who
tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you
with a sharp stick called ‘truth’. Dan Rather
Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the
fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I
would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for
the nations of the 21st Century. David Puttnam
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able
to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ Maria
Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. Temple Grandin
I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element
in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate.
It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a
tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a
tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or
heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis
will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
Haim G. Ginott
I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a
boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the
position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether
you choose to accept it or not is a different question. Talib Kweli
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. A. Bartlett Giamatti
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber
Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson
They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was
to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should
know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to
know it. William Haley
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when
his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the
kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of
every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor
The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. Aeschylus
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. Antisthenes
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. Antisthenes
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes
The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophanes
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored
than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art
of living well. Aristotle
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. Democritus
Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise. Euripides
Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves. Euripides
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer
A learned man has always riches in himself. Phaedrus
All learning has an emotional base. Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato
Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. Pythagoras
Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men. Pythagoras
Don’t peak in high school. Lizzy Caplan
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring
things because you want to explore them and learning because you love
learning-not worrying about competition. Maya Lin
Going to school is not only learning about different
subjects, it teaches you communication, it teaches you how to live a
life, it teaches you about history, it teaches you about how science is working. Malala Yousafzai
It’s unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there’s this need to have things quantified and graded. Rita Dove
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are
punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are
designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by
falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert
Kiyosaki
Things changed in the fourth grade, though. One of the
saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a
fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She got hip to my
whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for
learning things. I learned more that year than I think I learned in any
year in school. Steve Jobs
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Nicholas Meyer
1. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success
in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.” – John D. Rockefeller
2. “The single most important route of success is persistence – never, ever give up!” – Terry Matthews
3. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill.
4. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edition
5. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
6. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
7. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to
succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
8. “The only people who don’t make mistakes are those who do nothing,
and that is the biggest mistake of all.” – Dr William Reilly
9. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
10. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
11. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
12. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a
lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” –
Vince Lombardi
13. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
14. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
15. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed
at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan
16. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practised every day.” – Jim Rohn
17. “Sometimes success isn’t about making the right decision, it’s more about making some decision.” – Robin Sharma
18. “Number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill
19. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall
into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not
much.” – Jim Rohn
20. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
21. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
23. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
24. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
25. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
26. “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.” – Zig Ziglar
27. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
28. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
29. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
30. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
31. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
32. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
33. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
34. “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
35. “If you love what you do you’ll never work another day in your life.” – Mark Twain
36. “Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!” – Richard E. Grant
37. “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” – Zig Ziglar
38. “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
39. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
40. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
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