* Seeded from http://sixball.co.uk/#Quotations * Also see #quote # Muhammad Ali * You don't really lose when you fight for what you believe in. You lose when you fail to fight for what you care about. * Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. # Aristotle * To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. # Samuel Beckett * Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Fail again. Fail better. # Confucius * It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. # Harrington Emerson * As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. # Ralph Waldo Emerson * To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. # Gustave Flaubert * Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. * Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. # R. Buckminster Fuller * You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. # Benjamin Franklin * You may delay, but time will not. # Thomas Hobbes * Curiosity is the lust of the mind. # Sherlock Holmes * "Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." – Sherlock Holmes * I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that this little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it, there comes a time when for any addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. # Thomas Jefferson * Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. # John F Kennedy * Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. # Dalai Lama * Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. # Bruce Lee * A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. # Jack London * I would rather be ashes than dust. # Marilyn Monroe * Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. # Alan Moore * Quitting my day job and and starting as a writer was a tremendous risk. It was a fool's leap, a shot in the dark. But anything of any value in our lives whether that be a career, a work of art, a relationship, will always start with such a leap. And in order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust or result, are the purest actions that we shall ever take. – - [The Mindscape of Alan Moore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moRkHk-q9Rg) # Nietzche * A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. # George Orwell * If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. # Linus Pauling * If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away. # Unknown * Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. * Do it now. Sometimes 'later' becomes 'never'. # Theodore Roosevelt * Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. # Johnathan Swift * I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. # Mark Twain * Fear of death follows fear of life. A man who lives life fully is prepared to die at any time. # Henry David Thoreau * Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. * Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. * The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. * Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. * It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? * There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. * Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. * Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. * I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. * Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. * As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. * Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. * Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. # Thucydides * The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage. # Richard Whately * Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.