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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
― Rahm Emanuel

“There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A kite flies against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”
― Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1874-1904

“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“يوجد فرق بين رجلين: رجل يرى الحق فتكفيه الرؤية, ورجل يرى الحق فلا يستريح له جنب حتى يغير الحياة وفق ما رأى”
― زكي نجيب محمود, قصة عقل

“لماذا لا نري ف الفن العربي او الاسلامي فن تشكيلي او صور منحوته؟
لأن الفن الاسلامي هو فن "فكره" قبل ان يكون فناً مراده ان يعكس الكائنات ع الخامه التي يستخدمها بكل تفصيلاتها او ببعضها علي سبيل المحاكاه للمحاكاه ذاتها وإذا قلنا انه فن "فكره" فقد قلنا بالتالي انه فن للمبادئ المجرده لا للمخلوقات المجسده”
― زكي نجيب محمود, قيم من التراث