Motivational Status in English

“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”

“I never learned anything while I was talking.”

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”

“All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk.”

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

“When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”

“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.”

“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”

“If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.”

“A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.”

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”