I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.
Knowledge is having a mental history of past events and wisdom is having the ability to relate those past events to the present and future.
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.
One of the greatest plagues that besets our humanity is our inability to believe in the totality of who we are and the utter vastness of what we can achieve. And because of this crippling disbelief, we settle for the lesser lives that we were never built for. Yet despite the enormity of our skepticism, it is well within our reach to smash such a crippling disbelief for, in fact, that is the very thing that we were built to do.
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it. I can do it. Let's do it.
If you believe you can’t do it, you are right. Believe in your abilities.
Admire ability, experience, and knowledge over fame or wealth. Just because someone is a celebrity, it doesn’t make them an authority. Fame does not mean someone has experience, expertise or ability. And just because a celebrity or millionaire said it, doesn't make it true.
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.
The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.
I have this curious ability to be successful at everything except the things I want to be successful at.
If you do NOT see what You want to see in life, it is because of HOW you have been trained to look when you attended school. To succeed you only need to develop the ability to see what you WANT to see and NOT what others trained you to see.
Ability determines if you can; attitude determines if you will.
Break the mold, do whatever the hell you want within your abilities. Don't overextend yourself to create a false appearance of wealth and success
Don’t wait for perfect conditions because life has no perfect conditions. The secret to success lies in your ability to do more with less.
It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.
A good sign of maturity is when idleness doesn't jeopardize your integrity.
The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.
Right. I don't believe in the idea that there are a few peculiar people capable of understanding math, and the rest of the world is normal. Math is a human discovery, and it's no more complicated than humans can understand. I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can.' What we've been able to work out about nature may look abstract and threatening to someone who hasn't studied it, but it was fools who did it, and in the next generation, all the fools will understand it. There's a tendency to pomposity in all this, to make it deep and profound.
You can't reign in obscurity; you can't shine in your comfort zone.