Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 06:29 sati.