I believe that love – not imitation – is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can’t.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you’re in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You’ll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.
I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I’m stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It’s difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.