Inspiring Quotes - Page 78

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Self-plagiarism is style.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Be dignified, honest and truthful.

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

Never have a ceiling on your income.

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!