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"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."
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- "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
- "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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"You can never outperform your self-image."
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"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
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"Ideas are not limited by budget. The creative process takes place in your head. The interesting ideas come from some kid in a garage in the Bronx. You just need to break through the myth that you can't create a great Hollywood blockbuster on an iPad."
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"If there is a path, it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure."
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"The antidote to uncertainty is perseverance."
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"You can have more than you've got, because you can become more than you are."
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"Make no small plans, for they have not the magic which stirs men's blood."
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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
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"In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd."
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"Creativity is pushing past 'good enough'."
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"Creativity is doing more than the first thing you think of."
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"Inspiration is a discipline."
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"Where your world ends, mine begins."
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"Be curious, not critical."
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"You're not defined by your successes, you're defined by how you bounce back from your failures."
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"Servanthood begins where duty ends."
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"Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try."
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
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"All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired."
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"Your life begins once you give up trying to live someone else's."
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"If your emotions get to change your priorities, then your emotions are your highest priority."
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"You have a bright future. You're doing it. Are you ready for your future?"
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"If every time someone asks you a question, and you try to say the right answer, your entire life is a test."
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"Ease is a bigger threat to progress than hardship."
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"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem."
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
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"You were born an original, don't die a copy."
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"Training is nothing without the will to act."
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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
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"A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but once."
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"What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient… highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed — fully understood — that sticks; right in there somewhere."
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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"If the worst case scenario has the exact same outcome as doing nothing, then it is logical to take the risk."
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"The one who knows how will always have a job. The one who knows why will always be his boss."
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"Let's make our own mistakes, not someone else's."
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"If you don't decide, time will decide for you."
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"The bold one always got the better experience."
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"I think a lack of experience is a great help. An expert thinks he knows it all, but he's also rather inhibited by his experience, his knowledge, and he finds it difficult to steer off the well known path. If you have a lack of experience, but huge curiosity and you approach your new challenge with naivety, I think it's easier for you as an inexperienced designer to come up with something different and to follow a different path."
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"With the courage to begin and the discipline to endure, victory becomes a matter of time."
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"Art will never be obsolete."
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"Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe."
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"Those who do not move do not notice their chains."
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"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose…
You're off to great places.
Today is your day!
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"If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely."
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"If you're nothing without the suit, then you shouldn't have it."
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"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt."
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"Sometimes it's the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one could have ever imagined."
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Quotes
These are quotes that have inspired me over the years. The newest discoveries are at the top.