Things Quotes
I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.
We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.
While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.
The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.
Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.
What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.
I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
It a dude and a girl, and the house and wooo scary things happen and then they kill everything.
There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me." "Then we're doomed for sure.
It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.
Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?
You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.
I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.
I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.
I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.
Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.