In this post, you will find great How Quotes from famous people, such as Earl Nightingale, Jack Canfield, Spike Milligan, Helen Keller, Terry Pratchett. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.
I’m a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that’s how they want to perceive me, then so be it – but they don’t know who I am.
I like technology, but ‘Black Mirror’ is more what the consequences are, and it doesn’t tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We’ve not really thought through the consequences of it.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
People think because I’m a nice person I’m a weak person. But I don’t think being nice means you don’t know how to take tough decisions.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It’s impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You’re an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
I’ve gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it’s, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you’re having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
It’s not how you play the game, it’s how you place the blame.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance… has helped to determine your path through life.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man‘s eyes.
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don’t think about how hard it’s going to be.
Natural disasters are terrifying – that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.
I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s how I live my life.
People from outside don’t know how difficult it is to be goalkeeper.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
If you haven‘t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
Listen, if you don’t talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don’t think big, you don’t get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It’s all in how you want to dissect it.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher‘s stone.
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
You can’t control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can’t control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
It’s about learning how to slow down… I think this Covid environment that we’re in there’s a lot of sadness and a lot of pressure going on in terms of the uncertainty, but what it is teaching us or forcing us to do is appreciate the small things: be grateful for a slower pace of life.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.
A lot of people don’t see, when we lose and go through tough times, how upset and disappointed we are.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.
Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can’t necessarily get any other way.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven‘s sake.
Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it’s about how many peoples’ lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
I used to think, ‘How can I write my life story? I’m still living it.’
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
It’s about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That’s the biggest thing I was brought up on from my parents.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they’re doing.
It’s remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
I didn’t want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother’s car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.
Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That’s how it is.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they’re feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
No matter how much success you’re having, you can’t continue working together if you can’t communicate.
I’m no good with words but I’ll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory… of how we are taking responsibility.
I’m proud of my work and how far I’ve come, and I’m proud of the way that I did it.
Anyone can be a DJ but it’s understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.
One day, I will tell my story… where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
There is good in everything; it’s just how you choose to look at it. Everything that’s worth it has a price. For me to be a model – I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It’s how you handle it.
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.
Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
People say, ‘Dream big!’ – but you have to think about the logistics. It’s not just coming up with a great idea; it’s how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.
There’s a lot of things we go through and we don’t even know why… At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that’s kind of how I take that.
It’s not what you wear it’s how you wear it, is what I say.
Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
At Uniqlo, we’re thinking ahead. We’re thinking about how to create new, innovative products… and sell that to everyone.
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. ‘How are you’ is a greeting, not a question.
People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.
You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you’re remembered for. It’s how you’re measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it’s at.
No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.
I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.
You can’t control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back.
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.
What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you’re going to fail.
I’ve got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don’t know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’
I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.
It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
Never be ashamed of who you are, your story, or how you react to situations. Don’t ever be ashamed of how you communicate with people. Don’t ever be ashamed of the person you are. Be you.
The eyes are so telling. That’s how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.
Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
It’s not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
Whatever I start living like and whatever I start going through in my life, that’s how I’m gonna be sounding. It might sound a little different if I get more comfortable.
In the NBA, there’s always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn’t have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.
Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.
Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.
I’ve learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I’m looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
I didn’t know how to smile for the paparazzi.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don’t support you.
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Every How is carried by a What.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
This is how memories are made… by going with the flow.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn’t because they’re trying to fool you or because they’re hypocrites. It’s because they badly want to be that thing, and so they’ll try to be it.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
That’s how I was taught. That’s how I was raised, to ignore the stupidity, continue on and do what I need to do.
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it’s just about how you react to them.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can’t prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.
You don’t realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Having fun is definitely how you’re going to keep yourself loose, and be at your best.
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.
It isn’t what I do, but how I do it. It isn’t what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
Knowing how to dress is an art.
The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people’s expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That’s how your career takes off – it’s just consistency and time.
Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you’re likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.
It’s almost mind-boggling how time flies.
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
My message is just showing people how I came from nothing.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.
I can’t help but laugh at how perfect I am.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives – and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
People always talk about how time flies; it’s become sort of a colloquialism now. You don’t really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s – and I’m sure time will move even faster as I get older.
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
There’s always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There’s evil in all of us. It’s just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.
How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
It doesn’t matter if we grow old and get replaced by a new younger generation as long as there is still someone talking about us because they will still remember how we shone so bright.
I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.
Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone’s life.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won’t be classified as just a man.
I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.
So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: I can’t make Tuesdays.’
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.
I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.
I love beautiful things; I like having nice clothes, and I can appreciate why other people do – but I’ve also started to learn more about the impact of what we buy: how things are made, how much you buy and the quality of everything.
An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.
Don’t give up, no matter how hard it is. Things are going to be tough down the road, but the more work you put in, the more achievement you’re going to get out of it.
It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
For me, honestly, it’s not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It’s about what I’ve got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?
That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet‘s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
No matter what, no matter how I feel, always bring effort.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
If we don’t know life, how can we know death?
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
