William Mathews famous quotes

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.
-- William Mathews

#Law #Focus #Firsts

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
-- William Mathews

#Pairs #Half #Should

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
-- William Mathews

#Age #Phrases #Lamps

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
-- William Mathews

#Men #Obstacles #Helping

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
-- William Mathews

#Men #Solitude #Age

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.
-- William Mathews

#Real #Men #Tests

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
-- William Mathews

#Life #Ocean #Men

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.
-- William Mathews

#Stars #Destiny #Men

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
-- William Mathews

#Money #Character #Men

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.