It’s a kind of intellectual laziness to put other people’s thinking into the service of expressing your own. For now, laziness will have to do.
English
- “You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”
- – Amos Tversky
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall
- – Confucius
- “The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death’s best weapons”
- – Julio Costazar, Argentine writer
- “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die tomorrow.”
- – James Dean
- “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
- – Paulo Coelho
- “Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
- – Winston Churchill
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
- – Beverly Sills
- “Don’t go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Dream is not what you see in your sleep; dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.”
- – A P J Abdul Kalam
- “If everything seems under control you’re not going fast enough.”
- – Mario Andretti
- “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
- “It’s the silence between the notes that makes the music.”
- – in Jacob the Baker, Noah benShea
- “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- – Albert Einstein
- “Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.”
- – Anonymous
- “You can’t always do what you like but you can always like what you do.”
- – Paul Noll
- “The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools.”
- – Herbert Spencer
- “Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breaths away.”
- – Anonymous
- “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essentials”
- – Winston Churchill
- “Humility: the less you think of yourself as the centre of gravity, the more people gravitate toward you.”
- – Peter Schindler
- “Judge people not by how they treat the big boss, but the small potato.”
- – Peter Schindler
German
- “Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es um es zu besitzen!” => “Your fathers’
inheritance: earn it to own it!” - – Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
- “Meistens belehrt uns erst der Verlust ueber den Wert der Dinge”
- – Arthur Schopenhauer
Chinese
- 坐这山望那山一事无成 – 梁启超
- 有志者事竟成
- 路摇知马力日久见人心
- 塞翁失马焉知非福
- 一分为二
- 一朝被蛇咬十年怕井绳
- 水涨船高
- 良药苦口利于病, 忠言逆耳利于行
- 物竞天择
- 强扭的瓜不甜
- 读万卷书不如行万里路
- 有力不在声高
- 不做亏心事,不怕鬼敲门
- 比上不足比下有余
- 各人自扫门前雪