Dalai Lama Quotes

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

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• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Engineering

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
  • Substance

• When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Because

• I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Like
  • Process
  • Ups And Downs

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Power

• No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Today

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Short

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Goals
  • Impossible
  • Miracle

• I'm really proud of the Time's Up movement, and I hope it continues and it grows stronger and that it can really be established.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hope

• Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Insurance

• I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • School
  • Myself

• Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Hate
  • Present

• One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Thinking
  • Spring
  • Flower

• The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Deep
  • Failure