Without deviation progress is not possible.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

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.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

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.

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

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

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

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

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

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

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

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.