He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Topic: Expectations, Innovation, Time
- Location: Grand Teton National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
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Nothing is as harmful as expectations.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.