Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
The best things in life aren’t things.
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.
Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
The expert at anything was once a beginner.
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Life is what you make it.
I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.