I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

All men hate the nagging.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?