Sometimes it's easier to make decisions when you know that you've tried things that are so wrong, you know, "OK, I don't go that way with it. I don't go this way with it. " The way I work, I kind of have to go down all those wrong paths to know that the one I'm doing really is the one that is going to work.
There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.
It's kind of hard get outside of your own frame of reference. To one degree or another, we all go through our breakdowns and we can recognize our lives as a path to awakening or not. We can take our breakdowns as a way to sensitize us or as an excuse to blind and dull ourselves.
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.
Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.
Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.
God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.