Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.
Wise men hear and see as little children do.