When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've
detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some
aspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. This
discomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it read more
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,
is a clue to the universe. read more
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,
is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of
reality—to make something real.
It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of
reality—to make something real.
In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices
about results you want to create. When read more
The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices
about results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize
vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too
often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their
choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems
possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,
and all that is left is a compromise.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to read more
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
