Faculty in CSE @ UC San Diego
“Nothing is permanent except change.” -Heraclitus (Greek Philosopher)
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo da Vinci
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” -Charles R. Swindoll
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” -Henry David Thoreau
“I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” -Viktor E. Frankl
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” -Socrates
“If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” -Marcus Aurelius
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” -Maya Angelou
“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” -Helen Keller
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” -Jim Rohn