People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice
This is where it matters the most. This is where lives are made, in these moments when you can choose whether or not to say "I Can't" or "I Can. " It is a choice that will either make or break you for life.
God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.