We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
There is a better way for everything. Find it.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
I will walk where failures fear to walk.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
With enough butter, anything is good
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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