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If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Everything can be improved.

Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.