Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it’s all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It’s our choice.
—Andre Agassi (American Tennis Player)
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it all; whereas those who have a great deal of business, must (to use a vulgar expression) buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it in.
—Earl of Chesterfield (English Statesman, Man of Letters)
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
—J. P. Morgan (American Financier, Philanthropist)
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
—Thales of Miletus (Greek Philosopher, Mathematician)
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
—Ann Oakley (English Sociologist, Feminist)
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
—Bob Marley (Jamaican Musician)
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
—George Orwell (English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist)
A work of art is not valued because it changes itself for each person who views it, it retains its own integrity and thus means something unique and marvelous to those who see it.
—Charles A. Reich (American Jurist, Author)
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
—Anatol Rapoport (American Mathematical Psychologist)
Look up at the stars, and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
—Stephen Hawking (English Theoretical Physicist)
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
—Robert Burns (Scottish Poet, Songwriter)
I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.
—Haruki Murakami (Japanese Novelist)
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives and the serious part of frivolous lives.
—Sophie Swetchine (Russian Mystic, Writer)
Strong reasons make strong actions.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)