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[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.
When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.
In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.
Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.
Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.
Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.
I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.
You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.
Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.
My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.
I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job." I almost swerved into oncoming traffic.
I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.
Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?
Don't cut it," he said gruffly. "But no one'll see my tattoos if I don't." "Wear it up." -Dimitri, Rose, Dimitri
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.
Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy.
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
Promise too much and you'll have plenty of room to fail. Promise little and you'll have plenty of room to excel.
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.
I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.