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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Surrealism had a great effect on me
because then I realized that
the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity.
Surrealism to me is reality.
- John Lennon
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
Let me give you a definition of ethics:
It is good to maintain and further life
it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Albert Schweitzer
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty,
especially as the sheep was a black one.
Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of the word liberty;
and precisely the same difference
prevails today among us human creatures
- Abraham Lincoln
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
- Marva Collins
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