Inspirational Quotes - Page 554

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

...And you're the only one who knows.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

I'm gonna live my life. I won't watch the time go by. I won't keep it inside. Freak out, let it go.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.