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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Variant: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well
Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett book Worstward Ho
Worstward Ho (1983)
Variant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“I believe that if you focus on what you should do, the road ahead will open up naturally.”
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Other quotes, 2016 <br class="br">Original: (ja) 自分がすべきことを集中してやっていけば、自ずと道は開かれてくると信じているので。 <br class="br">Source: Interview at the arrival in Marseille ahead of the Grand Prix Final 2016, published 7 December 2016 by テレビ朝日 フィギュアスケート https://twitter.com/figureskate5ch/status/806400507698876416 (TV Asahi Figure Skate on Twitter). (Retrieved 11 September 2020)
Marc Bloch (1886–1944) French historian, medievalist, and historiographer
The Historian's Craft, pg.43
Elton Mayo (1880–1949) Australian academic
Source: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 1, Chapter 1: Fatigue; Lead paragraph
“When film is not a document, it is dream.”
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
On Andrei Tarkovsky in Laterna Magica (1987); The Magic Lantern : An Autobiography as translated by Joan Tate (1988). <!-- p. 73 --> [also sometimes referred to as The Magical Lantern]
Context: When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure...
“The only languages that do not change are dead ones.”
David Crystal (1941) British linguist and writer
Source: How Language Works, 2007, p. 357
Context: However language began, one thing is certain – it immediately began to change, and has been changing ever since. Languages are always in a state of flux. Change affects the way people speak as inevitably as it does any other area of human life. Language purists do not welcome it, but they can do very little about it. Language would stand still only if society did. A world of unchanging linguistic excellence, based on the brilliance of earlier literary forms, exists only in fantasy. The only languages that do not change are dead ones.