self-improvement Quotes

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use 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!

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.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.