“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
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“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”
“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.”
“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'”
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
“I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.”
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.”
“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.”
“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.”
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
“Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”
“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.”
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
“And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”
“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.”
“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”