Robert Fripp
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
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If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
There is no education like adversity.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
He who stops being better stops being good.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never, never, never give up.
My friends are my estate.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Without a general an army is lost.
Success is never wondering what if.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.