Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 207

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don\'t try.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
 Beverly Sills
The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.
 Stewart Brand
The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.
Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.
 Kobayashi Issa
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
 James F. Cooper
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
 Arthur Koestler
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
 Derek Bok
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
 Samuel Butler
You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
 Johann Gottfried Herder
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
 Peter R. Orszag