Yee Man Chan, a.k.a. Me
What you did was both eternal and immortal.
(Relativity denies the possibility of traveling to the past. This implies that if you want your life to look good, you have to live every moment to the fullest.)
Yee Man Chan, a.k.a. Me
We all had experienced death already. Let's recollect our feelings before our existence.
Yee Man Chan, a.k.a. Me
I would recommend that we accept the Universe itself over God as the First Cause. At least we all agree that it does exist.
Hasim Rahman
On his luck punch that knocked out Lennox Lewis: "Luck, somebody told me before, is being prepared when opportunity presents itself; and I believe we were fully prepared"
In his gym, there is a sign: "The harder you train, the luckier you get."
William Strunk Jr., author of Elements of Style
It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! If you don't know how to pronouce a word, say it loud!
Sir Issac Newton
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Avinash Dixit, a Princeton Economics Professor and Barry Nalebuff, a Yale Economics and Management Professor
If you are going to fail, you might as well fail at a difficult task. Failure causes others to downgrade their expectations of you in the future. The seriousness of this problem depends on what you attempt.
Marguerite Fatima, Holy Mother of Nisan in the Playstation game Xenogears
"Did you notice that the two great angels only have one wing each...? According to the legend handed down in Nisan... God could have created humans perfectly... But then, humans would not have helped each other... So that is what these great angels symbolize... In order to fly, they are dependent on one another. "
Eva Branson, mother of billionaire Richard Branson, on the evil of watching TV
Don't watch other people doing things. Do something useful. Stop messing around in front of the box. Get off your butt and go out and climb trees!
William Makepeace Thakeray, written in Vanity Fair, Chapter II
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
Andrew S. Grove, Intel Corp., CEO/founder
"Only the paranoids survive." -- Intel motto
"Things can be done will be done." -- from his book, Only the paranoid survive
Tiger Woods, when he was asked whether he will be the greatest player in the world after his phenomenal victory in 1997 Masters:
I don't know about that, but I know my goal is to obviously be the best. I know that's a very lofty goal, but I think that if I try to accomplish that goal, if I do, great. If I don't, I tried. I expect nothing but the best for myself. And I think as time goes along, hopefully that will happen.
Glen Rice, a former Wolverine and one of the best perimeter shooters in NBA:
When you give out 110%, good things will happen.
Valerie Mannix, founder of Mercury Print Productions, Inc:
They should never settle for a job well-done, they should always look for the next challenge, and if it doesn't already exist, go out and create it!
(Here, "they" refers to the would-be entreprenuers.)
Eleanor Roosevelt:
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Franklin Roosevelt: