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- Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Pamela Vaull Starr
- A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
- Emerson
- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
- In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
- Isaac Watts
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