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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they'll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others.

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers the financial crisis has proven this.

Do not let anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.

As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.