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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  • I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

  • No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

  • I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

  • The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

  • It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

  • I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

  • I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.

  • There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

  • Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.

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