Quotes 111 to 120

Use your imagination. Try to work out things on your own. Try to invent the machine in your mind. Then seek out the facts to check your imagination.
Always be ready to learn. However knowledgeable and experienced you may be, you can still learn something new.
An alert, attentive mind gives you the means of improving yourself, for it demonstrates your intelligence and enables you to see and grasp opportunities that a less lively mind would not spot.
What is holding you back? If you have a "Grasshopper Mind" you know that this is true. And you know why it is true. Even the blazing sun can't burn a hole in a piece of tissue-paper unless its rays are focused and concentrated on one spot.
Take your hobbies seriously. Whatever they are, enter into them wholeheartedly. Become an expert. The best way to refresh your mind, to give it a new cutting edge, is to work hard at your hobbies.
Learn to face and fight the hard experiences; Physically or mentally, or both.
Alert can handle difficult work, arrive quickly at decisions and produce more. They do not put things off.
Keep your senses sharp and your mind awake for the message they send you. Become aware of change and development. Sometimes small innovations evolve into important future development.
Be observant. Notice what is going on both in your world and in the world of great events. Use all your five senses; sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste, to acquire more knowledge of your surroundings.
Learn a new skill. You might connect this with your main hobby or with your work. The mind and the body are one. To master a physical skill you need to develop a disciplined, lively mint to direct your hands and feet the way they should go.