Inspirational Quotes - Page 568

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Customer service is just a day-in, day-out ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

In the end you have only you.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them