self-improvement Quotes

I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I have wasted my hours.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.