A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
The World has a First Cause, which may be regarded as the Mother of the World. When one has found the Mother, one can know the Child. Knowing the Child and still keeping the Mother, to the end of his days he shall suffer no harm.
Lao Tzu "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.
Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
