The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Life is what happens to you while you

John Lennon

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare

It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.

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You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

George Burns

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

John Sales

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

Albert Einstein

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

Anatoli Boukreev

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

Alex Winter