Peter’s Favourite Quotes and Sayings

English

·        “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die tomorrow.” – James Dean

·        “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho.

·        “Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

·        “There are no short cuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

·        “Don’t go where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

·        “Dream is not what you see in your sleep; dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.” – A P J Abdul Kalam

o   My variation: “It’s better to have a dream whose pursuit doesn’t let you sleep than one that you have only in your sleep.”

·        “If everything seems under control you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

·        “We don’t see things as they are.  We see them as we are.”

·        “It’s the silence between the notes that makes the music“, in Jacob the Baker, Noah benShea

·        "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." – Albert Einstein

·        “Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.  Religion is answers that may never be questioned.” – Anonymous.

·        “You can’t always do what you like but you can always like what you do.” -- ???

·        “The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools.” – Herbert Spencer

·        “Law of succinctness: We should not assert that for which we do not have some proof.” – Occam’s Razor (Or, in modern terms, KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.)

Chinese

·        有志者事竟成

·        路摇知马力日久见人心

·        塞翁失马焉知非福

·        一分为二

·        一朝被蛇咬十年怕井绳

·        水涨船高

·        良药苦口利于病, 忠言逆耳利于行

·        物竞天择

·        强扭的瓜不甜

·        读万卷书不如行万里路

·        有力不在声高

·        不做亏心事,不怕鬼敲门

·        比上不足比下有余

·        各人自扫门前雪