Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
I think I can adapt quite easily from having a Spanish mother and an English dad and growing up in both places. I feel like I've got two lives - that Spanish life, which was so free, and then I lived in England and went to an all-girls, private school and had to fit in with that. That switching out and becoming someone else, I find it quite liberating, actually.
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.
It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.
Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.