Quotes About Wisdom

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.

I think we all learn probably more from our mistakes than we do our successes.

I think you learn more from your failures than your successes.

I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.

You learn more from your setbacks than from your successes.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.