Collection de citations

"We have stone-age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. These three stanchions of current civilization explain why we are constantly in trouble."

"Your life isn't some big break. It's about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time."

"And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking."

"We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion — and for precisely the same reason articles of fashion are worn, which is to make the wearer look better and to feel a la mode."

"An individual was walking down the street and saw a gentleman chipping away on some stones. He said, 'What are you doing?' The gentleman grumbled, 'I'm building a stone wall.' He continued down the street and saw a second gentleman chipping stones. 'What are you doing?' This gentleman said, 'Well, I'm building a cathedral.'"

"Success doesn't come from a high IQ or innate talent. It takes a willingness to work hard. There is just no substitute for hard work and relentless preparation."

"A persistent curiosity can help us reach ambitious goals, even with great roadblocks in the way."

"Learning how to fall teaches you how to land, and learning to land gives you the courage to jump higher."

"We push ourselves through the week to get to the weekend. We have become 2/7ths people, only really living 2 days out of the 7 in a week. Things can be different. We can become 7/7ths people. And thereby become whole."

"It is much easier to describe the structural challenges we face than to describe the human response to those challenges that will change history."

"It's not deadly to ask stupid questions. What's deadly is to not ask the right question at the right time."

"Success comes to the prepared mind. Success is not like rain that falls from the sky equally upon everyone. Success is what you reap when you sow with passion and optimism."

"It doesn't matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. Whatever happens happens now, so live your life where the action is — now."

"Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness."