“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
More from Leonardo da Vinci
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“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
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“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
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“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
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“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
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“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”