Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Now we wake up with our memoryand fix our gazes on that which was;whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,sits silently beside us with loosened hair

Rainer Maria Rilke

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Dean Kamen

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Henry Ward Beecher

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Sigmund Freud

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Laurence J. Peter

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

Rainn Wilson

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Katherine Mansfield

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: