Douglas Hofstadter

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

I was afraid to show you this 300 acres that I just purchased that I’m building my first community on – my first five properties on – because I felt like it would be shut down.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.