Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 166

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“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and…”

— E. E. Cummings

“nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets.”

— E. E. Cummings

“Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.”

— E. E. Cummings

“when god decided to invent everything he took one breath bigger than a circustent and everything began”

— E. E. Cummings

“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to…”

— Rollo May

“This passion for form is a way of trying to find and constitute meaning in life. And this is what genuine creativity is.”

— Rollo May

“Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.”

— Rollo May

“Opinion leads us by the ears, the eyes, — and, I had almost said, by the nose. It warps our understandings, confounds our judgments, dissipates experience and turns our passions…”

— Laurence Sterne

“Generosity and courage are associate virtues; and the character which possesses the former, must, in the nature of mental arrangements, be adorned with the latter.”

— Laurence Sterne

“We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted…”

— Laurence Sterne

“I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the world ever convince me to the contrary.”

— Laurence Sterne

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.”

— Laurence Sterne

“I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a different thing.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I like to play. I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.”

— Ray Bradbury

“You must never receive a gift, ever, without returning the gift twice over.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Faith is the most centered act of the human mind.”

— Paul Tillich

“There's just one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found…”

— John Galsworthy

“How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least…”

— John Galsworthy

“Being a leader is an awesome responsibility. There are days when it can be frightening to know that the fate of the organization rests on your shoulders.”

— William H. McRaven

“Why is there a reluctance to be the face of the solution? Because if you are going to be the face of the solution, it likely means you had a hand in the problem.”

— William H. McRaven

“As a leader you can't have a bad day. You must never look beaten, no matter the circumstance.”

— William H. McRaven

“Own your lapses in judgment. It happens to everyone. Correct the problem and return to being a person of good character.”

— William H. McRaven

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