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Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.

I would rather see a serman than hear one any day.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. .

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

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