I’m still shy – I’m no good at my children’s parent-teacher conferences, and I’m slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There’s nothing that I’m too scared to have a go at. 697
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. 615
Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I’m deeply grateful for. 1.04K
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. 1.94K
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. 1.88K
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. 2.04K
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. 655
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. 584
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. 2.48K
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. 1.21K
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. 709
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 820
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. 986
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 636
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. 2.25K
