All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNever let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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