Makes Tick Quotes by Robert Breault

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet…

— Robert Breault

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

— Robert Breault

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

— Robert Breault

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

— Robert Breault

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

— Robert Breault

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

— Robert Breault

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

— Robert Breault

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

— Robert Breault

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

— Robert Breault

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a…

— Robert Breault

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

— Robert Breault

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

— Robert Breault

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

— Robert Breault

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

— Robert Breault

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

— Robert Breault