I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.
Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!
As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.
Rather than admit a mistake, nations have gone to war, families have separated, and good people have sacrificed everything dear to them. Admitting that you were wrong is just another way of saying that you are wiser today than yesterday.
When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.
Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.
When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.