Jane Austen Quotes

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I don't have the juice to say no too many times.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.