These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
There are no old roads to new directions.
There is no age attached to a student, that quest is without a number.
People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME and up she grew so tall. She ate from a plate called TASTE ME and down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin’ at all.
Success comes in cans, not can’t’s.
A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Managers say yes to innovation only if doing nothing is a bigger risk.
An optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.
On presenting to a crowd: It’s not about killing the butterflies in your stomach, it’s about getting them to fly in formation.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
You’re only given a small spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
Change is inevitable; growth is optional!
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
Could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Practice hard. Wellness. Play with Abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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