The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.
We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you.
People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love.
It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.
Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.
You know, kids need to feel like they're not being drowned out by superior competitors and they'll make that connection that, with a little more effort, I can compete. I can be competitive. I can be successful here with a little more effort and application and they learn that themselves. It's not just us telling them how hard you work matters. They need to feel it on their own.
Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.
If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.
S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.