Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
Today changes must come fast and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is pr...
To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yes...
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.
We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves "What will...
After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.
We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.
I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. But I don't want to set out to influence people. I don't want to set out to change the wo...