成功的第一個條件是真正的虛心，對自己的一切敝帚自珍的成見，只要看出同真理衝突，都願意放棄。

驕傲的人必然嫉妒，他對於那最以德性受人稱讚的人便最懷忌恨。

九牛一毫莫自誇，驕傲自滿必翻車。曆覽古今多少事，成由謙遜敗由奢。

一個驕傲的人，結果總是在驕傲裡毀滅了自己。

傲不可長，欲不可縱，樂不可極，志不可滿。

真正的勇敢，都包含謙虛。

啊！誇獎的話，出於自己口中，那是多麽乏味！

慷慨，尤其是還有謙虛，就會使人贏得好感。

我們不要把眼睛生在頭頂上，致使用了自己的腳踏壞了我們想得之於天上的東西。

不能憑最初印象去判斷一個人。美德往往以謙虛鑲邊，缺點往往被虛偽所掩蓋。

事情還沒有做成就吹牛皮誇口，的確糟糕透頂。

謙遜可以使一個戰士更美麗。

我們的驕傲多半是基於我們的無知。

滿盈者，不損何為？慎之！慎之！

恃國家之大，矜民人之眾，欲見威於敵者，謂之驕兵。

如果學習只在於模仿，那麼我們就不會有科學，也不會有技術。

求學的三個條件是：多觀察多吃苦多研究。

我們從失敗中學到的東西要比在成功中學到的東西多得多。

活著就要學習，學習不是為了活著。

對所學知識內容的興趣可能成為學習動機。

學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.

I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

Marriage is wonderful.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

Our trials our sorrows and our grieves develop us.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

Information and ignorance are like light and darkness. When light comes into your room darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind ignorance finds its way out

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience...that hissed yesterday may applaud today even for the same performance.

When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?

Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

Lost motivation means that you broke promises to yourself and havent corrected them yet. You need to believe in yourself again. This can only happen when you start fulfilling the small promises you make to yourself.