Inspirational Quotes

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

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.

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.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

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

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

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

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.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

Light works most effectively in darkness.

History remembers most what you did last.

Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

I do not judge the universe.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Soccer is a magical game.

Tired of being unhappy? Fix it.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

A vision has to be within reach not in the air. It has to be achievable.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.