Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your mostcherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience--the best schoolof all. You will develop...
You must engrave deeply in your mind and never forget: your emotional commitment to what you are doing will be translated into your work. If you go at your work with half a heart, it will show in the...
When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you.
There is a popular saying in Japan that goes Tada yori takai mono wa nai, meaning: Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge. THE UNSPOKEN WAY, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Louis XI (1423-1483), the great Spider King of France, had a weakness for astrology. He kept a court astrologer whom he admired, until one day the man predicted that a lady of the court would die with...
LAW 46Never Appear Too PerfectAppearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occa...
If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance t...
Despise The Free Lunch
Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.
Eventually, you will hit upon a particular field, niche, or opportunity that suits you perfectly. You will recognize it when you find it because it will spark that childlike sense of wonder and excite...
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.
Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolò Machiavelli wrote, Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger
LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and...
A bold act requires a high degree of confidence. People who are the targets of an audacious act, or who witness it, cannot help but believe that such confidence is real and justified. They respond ins...
Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion
Person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself,