Benjamin Robbins Curtis Quotes

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.