Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Embrace your inner voice.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
All you need is love.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Be Here Now.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Can you dig it ?
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Honor the ocean of love.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The past does not equal the future.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
We're on a mission from God.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
You create your reality.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.