One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

It is my job to help the players react better.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.