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American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL, $15.36, +10.27%) today reported its Q4 and full-year 2023 financial results, including:

• Record full-year revenue of approximately $53 billion.
• GAAP fourth-quarter and full-year net income of $19 million and $822 million, or $0.03 and $1.21 per diluted share, respectively.
• Excluding net special items1, fourth-quarter and full-year net income of $192 million and $1.9 billion, or $0.29 and $2.65 per diluted share, respectively.
• Achieved best-ever fourth-quarter and full-year completion factor.
• Generated GAAP operating cash flow of $3.8 billion and the airline’s highest full-year free cash flow2 of $1.8 billion.
• Reduced total debt3 by $3.2 billion in 2023. The company is more than 75% of the way to its 2025 total debt reduction goal.

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Memes stock GameStop Corp. (GME) closed at $14.52, +4.09% as the shorts lost their ongoing daily battle today. 

Shares of AMC, the largest movie exhibition company in the United States, the largest in Europe and the largest throughout the world with approximately 950 theaters and 10,500 screens across the globe, closed today at $4.08, -1.21%. 

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1. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
2. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
3. “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
4. “The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” – Indira Gandhi
5. “All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.” – Alexis Carrel
6. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
7. “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” – Galileo Galilei
8. “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
9. “Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg
10. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle
11. “Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.” – Joseph Brodsky
12. “Dream in a pragmatic way.” – Aldous Huxley
13. “No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.” – Hosea Ballou
14. “In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” – Charles Buxton
15. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
16. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
17. “Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.” – Thomas Mann
18. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandel
19. “Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell
20. “Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”– Sigmund Freud
21. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
22. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
23. “It’s remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” – Charlie Munger
24. “I’ve got some advice for the young: If you’ve got anything you really want to do, don’t wait until you’re 93.” – Charlie Munger
25. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward
26. “There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.” – Og Mandino
27. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Khalil Gibran
29. “The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.” – Richard L. Evans
30. “Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.” – Billy Wilder
31. “I’m from the ‘less is more’ school. I had to be in the ‘more is more’ zone with ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.” – Jean-Marc Vallee
32. “I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.” – Jerry Jones
33. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
34. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – Rene Descartes
35. “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” – Stephen Hawking
36. “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol
37. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” – Elvis Duran
38. “The dog that trots about finds a bone.” – Golda Meir
39. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
40. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyere
41. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
42. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
43. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
44. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
45. “The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” – John Burroughs
46. “Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” – Christopher Columbus
47. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
48. “The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” – William James
49. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
50. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas A. Edison
51. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel
52. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
53. “Let your mind alone, and see what happens.” – Virgil Thomson
54. “I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.” – Stephen Hawking
55. “There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.” – Frank Lloyd Wright 
56. “To begin, begin.” – William Wordsworth
57. “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
58. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi
59. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
60. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
61. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
62. “Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
63. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
64. “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” – Aristotle
65. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
67. “Good questions outrank easy answers.” – Paul Samuelson
68. “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar
69. To see things in the seed, that is genius.” – Lao Tzu
70. “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” – Michel de Montaigne
71. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
72. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
73. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. “If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” – John Paul Jones
75. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” –  Eleanor Roosevelt
76. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
77. “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden
78. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
79. “We boil at different degrees.” – Clint Eastwood
80. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
81. “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” – Tertullian
82. “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
83. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hannah Arendt
84. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
85. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
86. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr. Seuss
87. “We live in a rainbow of chaos.” – Paul Cezanne
88. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
89. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw
90. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” – Josh Billings
91. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
92. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
93. “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” – Francesco Guicciardini
94. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”– Plato
95. “Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
96. “Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” – William Shakespeare
97. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
98. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
99. “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Herman Melville
100. “Childhood is a short season” – Helen Hayes
101. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
102. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” – Eric Hoffer
103. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
104. “There are no shortcuts in evolution.” – Louis D. Brandeis
105. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
106. “Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” – Sophocles
107. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
108. “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker
109. “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” – Johannes Brahms
110. “Either move or be moved.” – Ezra Pound
111. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” – Henry David Thoreau
112. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
113. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” – Harry S Truman
114. “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” – Alexander the Great
115. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” – Francis Bacon“
116. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi
117. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclit
118. “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” – Lydia M. Child
119. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S Truman
120. “If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.” – John Galsworthy
121. “Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.” – Arnold Bennett
122. “There is always risk involved. You can’t be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.” – Cristina Kirchner
123. “I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” – Confucius
124. “He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.” – Elbert Hubbard
125. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
126. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” – Virginia Satir
127. “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” – Charles Dickens
128. “Perfection is the child of time.” – Joseph Hall
129. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
130. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child
131. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” – Thomas Jefferson
132. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl
133. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
134. “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” – Booth Tarkington
135. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
136. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
137. “The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” – Alfred Whitney Griswold
138. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling
139. “The more things change, the more they are the same.” – Alphonse Karr
140. “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” – Herodotus
141. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
142. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” – Woodrow Wilson
143. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
144. “You exist only in what you do.” – Federico Fellini
145. “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” – Bobby Knight
146. “The true art of memory is the art of attention.” – Samuel Johnson
147. The secret of happiness is something to do.” – John Burroughs
148. “A will finds a way.” – Orison Swett Marden
149. “To live is to think.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
150. “The sea hath fish for every man.” – William Camden
151. “What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” – Henry David Thoreau
152. “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.” – Rose Kennedy
153. “No one can figure out your worth but you.” – Pearl Bailey
154. “Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” – Nelson Mandela
155. “When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.” – Ellen Key
156. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” – Voltaire
157. “Time passes irrevocably.” – Virgil
158. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
159. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell
160. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu
161. “You begin with the possibilities of the material.” – Robert Rauschenberg
162. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
163. “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
164. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
165. “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” – James Stephens
166. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston
167. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
168. “Every failure is a step to success.” – William Whewell
169. “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi
170. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
171. “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” – Emo Philips
172. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
173. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
174. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
175. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
176. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
177. “You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.” – Flip Wilson
178. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
179. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas
180. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
181. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
182. “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
183. “Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.” – Elie Wiesel
184. “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne
185. “Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” – Washington Irving
186. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle
187. “If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.” – Rick Warren
188. “Dream in a pragmatic way.” – Aldous Huxley
189. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miro
190. “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” – Corrie Ten Boom
191. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
192. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
193. “I think about my work every minute of the day.” – Jeff Koons
194. “I restore myself when I’m alone.” –  Marilyn Monroe
195. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
196. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
197. “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
198. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
199. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
200. “A good beginning makes a good end.” – Louis L’Amour
201. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
202. “One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” – Thomas Fuller
203. “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
204. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
205. “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller
206. “The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.” – Richard L. Evans
207. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
208. “Real riches are the riches possessed inside.” – B. C. Forbes
209. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius
210. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – Rene Descartes
211. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
212. “It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” – Henry James”It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.” – Will Rogers
213. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” – Elvis Duran
214. “Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
215. “Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?” – T. S. Eliot
216. “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” – Spike Milligan
217. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyere
218. “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” – Theodore Roosevelt
219. “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
220. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
221. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
222. “Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.” – Charles de Gaulle
223. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
224. “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
225. “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” – George Eliot
226. The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” – William James
227. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
228. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
229. “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” – Edgar Allan Poe
230. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel
231. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
232. “The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.” – Finley Peter Dunne
233. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
234. “Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
235. “To begin, begin.” – William Wordsworth
236. “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
237. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke
238. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
239. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells
240. “Won’t be long before we view gasoline cars the same way we view steam engines today.” – Elon Musk
241. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller
242. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” – Oscar Wilde
243. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
244. “Good questions outrank easy answers.” – Paul Samuelson
245. “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.” – Plato
246. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
247. “All money is a matter of belief.” – Adam Smith
248. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
249. “Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.” – Ben Bernanke
250. “I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney
251. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
252. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
253. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
254. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
255. “Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.” – Walter Scott
256. “If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” – Tallulah Bankhead
257. “When one must, one can.” – Charlotte Whitton
258. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
259. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
260. “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” – Tertullian
261. “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” – Francis of Assisi
262. “With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
263. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
264. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
265. “Hope is but the dream of those who wake.” – Matthew Prior
266. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul
267. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
268. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw
269. “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
270. “History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
271. “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – John Dryden
272. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
273. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
274. “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
275. “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” – Francesco Guicciardini
276. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato
277. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson
278. “Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.” – James Thurber
279. “If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” – Hal Borland
280. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
281. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu
282. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
283. “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.” – Elon Musk
284. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake
285. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali
286. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
287. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
288. “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles
289. “The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.” – Carl von Clausewitz
290. “There are no shortcuts in evolution.” – Louis D. Brandeis
291. “I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.” – Leni Riefenstahl
292. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
293. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
294. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
295. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton
296. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
297. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
298. “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” – Aeschylus
299. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
300. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
301. “Anything simple always interests me.” – David Hockney
302. “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
303. “Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.” – Victor Hugo
304. “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” – Aldous Huxley
305. “View health as an investment, not an expense.” – John Quelch