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I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
The leader ... is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather, they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
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.
We rely on skilled foreign workers for their math, science, and creative abilities as well as their cultural knowledge, which helps when localizing products for world markets.
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do stuff that no number of average people could do.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?
The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.
I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman.
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.
Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called itChops
because that was the name of his dog
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo
And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X's
and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And was always there to do it
Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called itAutumn
because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint
And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed
when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
when he cried for him to do it.
Once on a paper torn from his notebook
he wrote a poem
And he called itInnocence: A Question
because that was the question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A
and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle's Creed went
And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her
but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly
That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem
And he called itAbsolutely NothingBecause that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think
he could reach the kitchen.
There is no pretending,Jace said with absolute clarity.
I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I understand, of course, that many people find smoking objectionable. That is their right. I would, I assure you, be the very last to criticize the annoyed. I myself find many - even most - things objectionable. Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs. In private I avoid such people; in public they have the run of the place. I stay at home as much as possible, and so should they. When it is necessary, however, to go out of the house, they must be prepared, as I am, to deal with the unpleasant personal habits of others. That is whatpublicmeans.
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
I wouldn't be human if I didn't feel pride and something that transcends pride ... humility.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments add lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.
There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
[Accountancy is] a profession whose idea of excitement is sharpening a bundle of No. 2 pencils.
Accounting issues did not cause Enron's stock price to fall - its failed business model did.
Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analysing facts about the past, but they have no forward vision.
Accountants are the witch-doctors of the modern world and willing to turn their hands to any kind of magic.
The accountants have told me that I can have one foot in Jersey, my left earlobe in the Isle of Man, and my right foot in Zurich and pay little or no tax, but ... I will not be running away to the South of France.
The attitude of disrespect that many executives have today for accurate reporting is a business disgrace. And auditors ... have done little on the positive side. Though auditors should regard the investing public as their client, they tend to kowtow instead to the managers who choose them and dole out their pay.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go, if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Every man who is high up loves to feel that he has done it himself; and the wife smiles, and let's it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Every step you take, is a step away from where you used to be.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Yes, I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Anytime you have a fiercely-competitive, change-oriented growth business where results count and merit matters, women will rise to the top.
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
People are ambitious and unrealistic. They set targets for themselves that are higher than what you would set for them. And because they set them, they hit them.
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land. One has to only think global. Otherwise success will disappear like the dew in the morning sun.
Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.
Happiness ... lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife.
The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals. That's why the people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else's goals.
If you're going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big.
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
I believe in my own possibilities, and I feel I can do it all.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as who you become (by achieving your goals).
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement - a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.
The big danger in mega-mergers is that they are seen as a mating of dinosaurs.
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
AfterThe Real Thing,I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.
As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.
I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it. Nobody realized Everybody wouldn't do it. In the end, Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
Once thewhatis decided thehowalways follows. We must not make thehowan excuse for not facing and accepting thewhat.
One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over ... your problem won't improve with age.
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Every step you take, is a step away from where you used to be.
Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
First things first, second things never.
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.
No organizational action has more power for motivating employee behavior change than feedback from credible work associates.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Well done is better than well said.
Leadership is practiced, not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!
Never confuse movement with action.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing; seize the day, put no trust in the future.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it and see if it works.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words to action.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
In a small company, one person's hunch can be enough to launch a new product. In a big company, the same concept is likely to be buried in committee for months.
Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favour of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
In government it is order that matters; In action it is timeliness that matters.
I got my start by giving myself a start.
My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers and thermonuclear weapons.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaption to the problem you're working on.
While animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
There is no education like adversity.
It is difficulties that show what men are.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
The highest form of success ... comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
The codfish lays ten thousand eggs
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles
To tell you that she's done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
While the humble hen we prize,
Which only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise.
When the client moans and sighs
Make his logo twice the size.
If he still should prove refractory,
Show a picture of a factory.
Only in the gravest cases
Should you show the clients' faces.
If you wish in this world to advance
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
And blow your own trumpet,
Or trust me, you haven't a chance.
The world is first a Coke world, then an orange world, then a lemon-lime world.
The man who whispers down a well
About the goods he has to sell
Will not make as many dollars
As the man who climbs the tree and hollers!
Beneath this slab
John Brown is stowed
He watched the ads
And not the road.
Truly great brands are far more than just labels for products; they are symbols that encapsulate the desires of consumers; they are standards that are held aloft under which the masses congregate.
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
It is a mistake to use highfalutin language when you advertise to uneducated people. I once used the wordobsoletein a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of the housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the wordineffable, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.
There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
The cosmetics industry should be promoting health and well-being; instead it hypes an outdated notion of glamour and sells false hopes and fantasies.
Don't ask if - ask which.
Don't sell the steak; sell the sizzle. It is the sizzle that sells the steak and not the cow, although the cow is, of course, mighty important.
Don't think so much about what you want to say as about what the prospect wants to hear - then the response you will get will more often be the one you are aiming for.
Don't write - telegraph!
Say it with flowers.
Watch your bark!
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast,
Is that portentous phrase,I told you so,
Uttered by friends, those prophets of the past.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
The world is full of people giving good advice to others, but I have thought we should all be better off if we would advise ourselves more, and others less. If I could take the good advice I am capable of giving, I should have no occasion to accept it from others.
I don't like to hire consultants. They're like castrated bulls: all they can do is advise.
Advice almost never functions as a social lubricant; eight or nine times out of ten it makes people lose face, crushes their will, and creates a grudge.
A man with a bristling grey beard [a yachtsman], said:I made up my mind, when I bought my first boat, never to learn to swim ... When you're in a spot of trouble, if you can swim you try to strike out for the shore. You invariably drown. As I can't swim, I cling to the wreckage and they send a helicopter out for me. That's my tip, if you ever find yourself in trouble, cling to the wreckage!
Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
There should be some professional exam for these analysts. Most of the time they talk through their backsides.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
I have found that the best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.
If you want to push something ... you're accused of being aggressive, and that's not supposed to be a good thing for a woman. If you get upset and show it, you're accused of being emotional.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
But what is woman? - only one of Nature's agreeable blunders.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views ... The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
Contracts are agreements made up of big words and little type.
The person who agrees with everything you say either isn't paying attention or else plans to sell you something.
We're not quarrelling! We're in complete agreement! We hate each other!
The truly successful businessman is essentially a dissenter, a rebel who is seldom if ever satisfied with the status quo.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
If two men agree on everything, you can be sure one of them is doing the thinking.
There is always victory when there is agreement.
Could we forbear dispute and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
When you think about it, giving up yourrealpersonality is a small price to pay for the richness ofliving happily ever afterwith an actual man!
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,Joseph exclaimed.
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun.
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Between us, love the buses at the door the long glass street two years, my death to yours my death upon your lips my face becoming glass strong challenged time making me win immortal our street our river a deadly glass to hold. Now they are feeding me into a steel mill furnace O love the stream of glass a stream of living fire.
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...
Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.
I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his work when he does feel like it.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Managerial intellect wilted in competition with managerial adrenaline. The thrill of the chase blinded pursuers to the consequences of the chase.
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoléon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
You can judge the height of someone's talent by what he aspires to. Only a great thing can satisfy a great talent.
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan.
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
People are ambitious and unrealistic. They set targets for themselves that are higher than what you would set for them. And because they set them, they hit them.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled by great ambitions.
I grew up with a lot of brothers and sisters. I did all I could do to really stand out and that nurtured a lot of confidence and drive and ambition.
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
If you're going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
I was like a hit album waiting to be released. I knew my day would come.
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.
A tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.
To the stars who listen-and the dreams that are answered.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Watch how a man takes praise and there you have the measure of him.
It is essential to condemn what must be condemned, but swiftly and firmly. On the other hand, one should praise at length what still deserves to be praised.
I praise loudly, I blame softly.
I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
No organizational action has more power for motivating employee behavior change than feedback from credible work associates.
Cheers hearten a man. But jeers are just as essential. They help maintain his sense of balance and proportion.
There's nothing more demoralizing than having nobody notice good performance ... the successful culture is one that provides constant recognition and applause. At the same time, it breeds a restless dissatisfaction that keeps you challenging yourself to a higher and higher performance.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the faultfinding of men.
People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.
A man must not always tell all, for that were folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.
Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.
It is essential to condemn what must be condemned, but swiftly and firmly. On the other hand, one should praise at length what still deserves to be praised.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Cheers hearten a man. But jeers are just as essential. They help maintain his sense of balance and proportion.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement - a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
Each man the architect of his own fate.
One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.
Women are the real architects of society.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.
Avoid fight or flight, talk through differences.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it - immediately.
There are two powers at which men should never grumble - the weather and their wives.
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.
We're not quarrelling! We're in complete agreement! We hate each other!
The stronger man's argument is always the best.
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!
I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar, and often convincing.
My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Then you should say what you mean,the March Hare went on.I do,Alice hastily replied;at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.Not the same thing a bit!said the Hatter.Why, you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!
I say what I mean, you hear what I say. That is the end of it.
If a lady says No, she means Perhaps; if she says Perhaps, she means Yes; if she says Yes, she is no Lady. If a diplomat says Yes, he means Perhaps; if he says Perhaps, he means No; if he says No, he is no Diplomat.
Most of the information we use now is obtained free ... and there is no way of knowing anymore whether the information on which we base our own information for distribution is true or false. But that doesn't seem to matter; all that matters is that the information comes from a reputable source.
Make a suggestion or assumption and let them tell you you're wrong. People also have a need to feel smarter than you are.
Do not assume more variables than necessary.
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
The person who agrees with everything you say either isn't paying attention or else plans to sell you something.
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his work when he does feel like it.
The rough broad difference between the American and the European business man is that the latter is anxious to leave his work, while the former is anxious to get to it.
If a gentleman is frivolous, he will lose the respect of his inferiors.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan,Press on,has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disastrous.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Leadership is practiced, not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem.
Change is an attitude of mind and the place to start is within ourselves.
It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I treat everything as a learning experience; then you become detached from the result and more interested in the experience itself.
Pride should consist in doing your job in the best possible manner.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.
The kind of brain-dead, gum chewing assistant you find in so many shops drives me wild. I want everyone who works for me to feel the same excitement that I feel.
The highest form of success ... comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration - of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
You have a beautiful classy mind but I find you physically unattractive.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
The attitude of disrespect that many executives have today for accurate reporting is a business disgrace. And auditors ... have done little on the positive side. Though auditors should regard the investing public as their client, they tend to kowtow instead to the managers who choose them and dole out their pay.
I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.