Robert Fripp
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
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That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
You can do what you want to do.
Don't think it, ink it.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Love is a great beautifier.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
The beginning is the half of every action.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Follow the money.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Here's looking at you, kid.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
There are simply too many notes.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Children are all foreigners.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Must you flirt ?
Believe in yourself.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Love knows no bounds.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !