Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: brainy

Good order is the foundation of all things.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Never mistake motion for action.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

All serious daring starts from within.

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

You exist only in what you do.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

To be is to do.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

You create your own reality.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

We do not judge the people we love.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.