High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
We are what we believe we are.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Character is what a man is in the dark.
If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Never mistake motion for action.
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
