John Heywood
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Bring out the gimp.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
No wire hangers, ever !
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Believe in yourself.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Somebody stop me !
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Do you like scary movies ?
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Real love stories never have endings.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
After all, tomorrow is another day !
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.