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Do not trust all men

  Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. - Democritus College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. - Plato Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. - Jerome Blattner Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. - Thomas Fuller As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. - Frank Crane The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. - Frank Herbert It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson READ MORE

If you gotta go, you gotta go

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go. - Lillian Carter What you risk reveals what you value. - Jeanette Winterson Life is a risk. - Diane Von Furstenberg There is no point in doing more efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter Drucker If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Seneca Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. - John Locke If small and nimble are qualities at one extreme of a continuum that is bookended at the other side by heavy and dominant, the former traits are ideally suited for points of origin and times of high volatility. These are periods of constant change, multiple openings, and perpetually shifting opportunity. The latter set of qualities, conversely, will fare best in times of maturity, when making sharp turns is no longer part of the navigation. - Dan Ramsden, CEO and Venture capitalist Just trust yourse...

Trust your instincts

  Image by Grok Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson You can observe a lot just by watching. - Yogi Berra, Berra's Law He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington The public will ...

We can learn much from wise words

  Image created by ChatGPT We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington Anything too stupid to be said is sung. - Voltaire There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. - Muhammad Ali READ MORE NICE

The most wasted of all days

  The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e e cummings One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller A Hospital is no place to be sick. - Samuel Goldwyn The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson [Common sense] is the best sense I know of. - Lord Chesterfield You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? - Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - Robert Louis Stevenson Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery READ MORE NICE

When we do the best that we can

  Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. --Samuel Butler Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. --Oscar Wilde A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. --Emily Dickinson, No. 1333 Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. --Mark Twain To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie...