Thomas Huxley Quotes

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

Be sure of what you want work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

A lot of the Olympic games just boil down to genetics. Michael Phelps is genetically built to swim better than other people if he trains the same way. You might as well have a competition for who's the tallest, and act like it's anyone's game!

Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.