“The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“Beaten paths are for beaten men.”
“The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting.”
“for men do easily part with their prince upon hopes of bettering their condition, and that hope provokes them to rebel; but most commonly they are mistaken, and experience tells them their condition is much worse.”
“The surest path to positive self-esteem is to succeed at something which one perceived would be difficult. Each time we steal a student’s struggle by insisting they do work too easy for them, we steal their opportunity to have an esteem-building experience.”