Jerry Greenfield
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
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The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Attica ! Attica !
Union gives strength.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
For with god all things are possible.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Don't think it, ink it.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Love is friendship set to music
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Remove failure as an option.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.