"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of." -Ben Franklin
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. - Joe Paterno "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." --Booker T. Washington
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." -Thomas Edison
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing; you don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." - Vince Lombardi
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the greatest harmony.
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
both from: Heraclitus
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. "--Aldous Huxley
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it."--S. Leacock.
(On how Issac Newton solved problems):
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and
wait till the first
dawnings open little by little into the full light.
E.N. da C. Andrade, Sir Isaac Newton, His Life and Work, Doubleday Anchor, New York, 1950, p. 35.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."--Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Who so neglects learning in youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Frag. 927.Euripides. 484-406 B. C.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
"Better put some jam in your pockets, general, because we're all gonna be toast." -- Geologist advising the commander of Clark Air Force Base, Phillipines on June 14, 1991 as the volcanic activity at Mt. Pinatubo increased significantly.
Continual dropping wears away a stone. De Rerum Natura. i. 313, Lucretius. 95-55 B. C. (Predates Hutton by a bit!)
sports
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. - Babe Ruth
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -Vince Lombardi