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To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, W
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Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
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An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
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We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
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Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
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Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
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He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
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It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
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Live to live and you will learn to live
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
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Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
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You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
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Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the et
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To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achi
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Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
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He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.
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The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
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Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
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Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
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Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
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Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared
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Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
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Human science is an uncertain guess.
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all un
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Solutions- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, an
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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
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Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
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