LIKE A CHILD AT PLAY

" The idea of true maturity is to attain seriousness of a child at play"

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Avoid obvious mistakes, do not follow the obvious successes.

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"Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach

"Talk does not cook rice."
- Chinese Proverb

"He who has no fire within himself cannot warm others."
- Swiss German Proverb

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives," said Abraham Lincoln. "I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

HUMOR

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing -William James

INTELLECTUAL

“An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself” Albert Camus

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual” Oscar Wilde

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” - Christopher Morley