I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

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.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

The status quo sucks.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

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.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Nothing recedes like progress.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.