Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, painted here by his friend Jan Vermeer, was a self-taught instrument maker.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.
Everything started as nothing.
People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.