This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Robert Kiyosaki, fully Robert Toru Kiyosaki
In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
We too often mistake the form of an experience for its essence. We worship the physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and not the Spirit itself.
Experience | Mistake | Spirit | Worship |
Man is what he is, not that which can be expressed. True the aim of all awareness is to express that which is, but expression is a slow, elusive task, and it is a mistake to assume that anything incapable of being stated in words does not exist.
It may be a mistake to mix different wines, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Children learn at their own pace, and it is a mistake to try to force them. The great incentive to effort, all through life, is experience of success after initial difficulties. The difficulties must not be so great as to cause discouragement, or so small as not to stimulate effort. From birth to death, this is a fundamental principle. It is by what we do ourselves that we learn.
Birth | Cause | Children | Death | Effort | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Mistake | Success | Learn |
Those who have finished by making others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.