Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

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

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

The wisest have the most authority.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.