The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

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

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

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

I believe that one person can make a difference.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Of course, I do everything for money.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?