Louise Beal

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.

I never wanted this kind of life that I’m still living.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

That dog don’t hunt.