Michael Polanyi
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Love sees roses without thorns.
Love is letting go of fear.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
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.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Love is a hole in the heart.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Be Here Now.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Bring out the gimp.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
My heart shall be thy garden.
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.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Things do not change we change.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Hunker down.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
When we place blame, we give away our power.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
Mr. Christian !
What hump ?
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The stuff that dreams are made of.