Inspirational Quotes - Page 351

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.