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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore
them long enough.
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore
them long enough.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people
visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is read more
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people
visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.
And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such read more
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts
through it will blow up everything in its way.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do read more
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a read more
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
