Quotes About Wisdom

Comedy comes from confusion.

One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

In my last years, I was conscious how I used to play the game when I first broke through. It was absolute chalk and cheese. I probably finished at the right time. There won't be many players like me in the future.

I wish I would have listened, when I was a kid, to my elders or people who had my best interests at heart, and then I wish I would have been more conscious at that age also.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

Being president isn't a solo position. You surround yourself with highly qualified people that are smarter about issues than you are. But that's not enough. You then have to listen to them.

Los Macorinos are much older than I am so when you surround yourself with older people you realize they lived what we're living now. They live in a moment of peace because they don't have to prove anything anymore.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

Growing up, I was surrounded by many great men in my life. I watched them and learned, taking it in like a sponge.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.