Denis Quotes

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

Only the bad man is alone.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Procrastination is the fear of success.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.