One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and… — Ben Hogan Copy Share Image
I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I'd get out at school at 3:00 P.M., show up to dance practice at 6:30 P.M., practice for three hours till 9:00… — Jessie Reyez Copy Share Image
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Copy Share Image
I'm just going to be honest with you. It's hard to go out there and fight for 60 minutes when you're fighting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
Practice for us went pretty well. It started out slow, but guys did a real nice job on the M&M’s Camry today… — Kyle Busch Copy Share Image
We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I was driving in a car on my way to football practice, and I was listening to the radio, and they had… — Charles Melton Copy Share Image
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image