Inspiring Quotes - Page 32

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Every artist was first an amateur.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.