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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?

Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.

Intelligence and genius

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.