Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness
I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer. . . But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable. . . They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.
That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.
What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
It Hurts. . . It Kills. . . It Teaches. . . It Thrills. . . “IT” Is LIFE. . . !