It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.
We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise to say, Why don't we stop here and have a moment of silence, then go in a completely different direction?
True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live. " To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.
A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.
He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many worthwhile things in this world, not merely for one's self but for others. But he is an unmitigated fool who imagines for a moment that it is more important to make the money than to make it honestly. One of the advantages of possessing money is that it facilitates one's independence and mental attitude. The man head over heels in debt is more slave than independent.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.
Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure. . . except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap. . . the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower. " This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.
You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.
I feel like after Money in the Bank in Phoenix, I almost took a nose dive, career-wise. I couldn't get the reigns on it, but I feel like I finally got the reigns on my career again, and that happens in entertainment.
Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!
That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.
CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That’s preposterous. Girls don’t like me. I was born and raised in Chicago. The city made me. Punk is just because I’ve always been a smart-mouthed, wise-ass punk. I still am. I was the guy, if a bunch of football players were messing with one of my friends, I’d walk over there and spit in their face.