We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I read more

We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which
all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in
which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is
designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and
uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We
survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it
any other way.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration.

We are that which activates the body.

We are that which activates the body.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?