You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.
Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.
Technically, we're all half centaur.
Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.