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To sit back and say,Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,is giving up.
There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
If something pleasant happens to you, don't forget to tell it to your friends, to make them feel bad.
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.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad.
With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.
Examinations are of no value whatsoever. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter ... a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it's supposed to balance your body's pH. Not sure if that's true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.
It's a well-known proposition that you know who's going to win a negotiation: it's he who pauses the longest.
Here's the rule for bargains:Do other men, for they would do you.That's the true business precept.
Some of them think they have me by the balls, but their hands aren't big enough.
Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face ... Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - there is nothing so self-blinding.
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.
Make a suggestion or assumption and let them tell you you're wrong. People also have a need to feel smarter than you are.
Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
Never make concessions.
Be careful, be cautious, do not rush into negotiations ... be careful what you give away now, you may wish you had not done so should in future the balance of forces turn in your favour.
My style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
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.
You have a beautiful classy mind but I find you physically unattractive.
Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.
But I don't want anything else in the world.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Must, bid the Morn awake,
Sad Winter now declines,
Each Bird doth choose a mate,
This day's Saint Valentine's;
For that good Bishop's sake
Get up, and let us see
What Beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
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.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
There is a misconception that small is always more beautiful than big.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn't stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own-even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read ...
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
My wife wanted her face lifted. They couldn't do that. But for $80, they lowered her body.
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
I've got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.
I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it.
There are three statements that you should never believe: (1)A cheque is in the post; (2)I am from the Government and I am here to help you; (3)Of course, darling, I will still respect you in the morning.
I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.
Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.
When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is,Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.
Faith is not a conclusion from premisses, but the result of an act of the will, following on the conviction that to believe is a duty.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
There are only two kinds of men: those righteous who believe themselves sinners; the other sinners who believe themselves righteous.
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.
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.
I can believe in anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Where will it all end? Half the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.
I believe in my own possibilities, and I feel I can do it all.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Life is very insistent; and it always seems to be so when friends sadly leave us.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
You know it takes a year, a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing somebody. That's a true saying.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
To me and to the state of my great grief
let kings assemble; for my grief's so great
that no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up:
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
The stronger man's argument is always the best.
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
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.
A new type of woman arises. She is called a career woman. A man is never a career man. That is his right and privilege. But the woman is called career woman because hercareer... demands that she ... even renounce normal life.
When women ask for equality, men take them to be demanding domination.
The moment a person forms a theory his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favour that theory.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
Given the natural differences between human beings, equality is an ethical aspiration that cannot be realized without recourse either to despotism or to an act of fraternity.
All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always absolutely valueless.
I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, likeThe Little Train That Could,which is about the importance of not giving up, andLittle Toot,about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.
Was she old? When they lit all the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome with the heat.
I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
Happy Birthday, Johnny,
Live beyond your income,
Travel for enjoyment,
Follow your own nose.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you get un-birthday presents ... And only one for birthday presents, you know.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Through a dull tract of woe, of dread,
The toiling year has pass'd and fled:
And, lo! in sad and pensive strain,
I sing my birth-day date again.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Good-morrow to the golden morning!
Good-morrow to the world's delight!
I've come to bless thy life's beginning,
That hath made my own so bright!
So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
In all the bliss that life endears,
Not without smiles, nor yet from tears
Too strictly kept:
When first thy infant littleness
I folded in my fond caress,
The greatest proof of happiness
Was this - I wept.
In the gradual desuetude of old observances, this custom of solemnizing our proper birth-day hath nearly passed away, or is left to children, who reflect nothing at all about the matter, nor understand any thing in it beyond cake and orange.
Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born, the morning-stars their ancient music make.
I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head. In recent years, however, birthdays have been more like medical check-ups - no fun at all but necessary if one intends to stay alive from year to year.
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
For every year of life we light
A candle on your cake
To mark the simple sort of progress
Anyone can make,
And then, to test your nerve or give
A proper view of death,
You're asked to blow each light, each year,
Out with your own breath.
May you live all the days of your life.
Consultants eventually leave, which makes them excellent scapegoats for major management blunders.
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible.
It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
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.
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
I praise loudly, I blame softly.
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about ... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the faultfinding of men.
The devil is always blaming someone.
Bricks of blame pave the floor of hell.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.
Never sing in chorus, if you want to be heard.
When you apply the word power to a man, it means strong and bold - very positive attributes. When you use it to describe a woman, it suggests bitchy, insensitive, hard.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
It is better to be impetuous than circumspect. Experience shows that (fortune) is more often subdued by men who do this than by those who act coldly.
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk - which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
But, the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
If you're going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big.
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
History books which contain no lies are extremely dull.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons?
Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
Executives can get away with having a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you're not working hard enough.
The biggest change in the workplace of the future will be the widespread realization that having one idiot boss is a much higher risk than having many idiot clients.
I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.
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.
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
To be dilatory about giving orders, but to expect absolute punctuality, that is called being a tormentor.
The stronger man's argument is always the best.
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Two things to help keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.
Sometimes it is the menhigher upwho most need revamping - and they themselves are the last to recognize it.
Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
I see nothing wrong with power as long as I am the fellow who has it.
The difference between a leader and a boss is the difference between good and bad management.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
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.
The person who knowshowwill always have a job. The person who knowswhywill always be his boss.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid, the second is pleasant and highly paid.
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Insecure managers create complexity.
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.*
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Your brain is, indeed, a supreme example of, and is the ultimate, Internet.
IBM is like the Stepford Wives. It takes the best people from the best universities and colleges and then snips out some part of the brain so that they become mindless clones.
Never trust men with short legs. Brains too near their bottoms.
Minds are like parachutes: they only function when they are open.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem.
Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something ... That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
We seriously undervalue the passion ... a person brings to an enterprise. You can rent a brain, but you can't rent a heart.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?
Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
The world is first a Coke world, then an orange world, then a lemon-lime world.
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.
For lots of big companies, their brand is worth so much to them that they can't endanger their reputation for being a quality company without really endangering their business performance.
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.
From leaders, we need clear, consistent and honest attention to the identity of the organization. Identity shows up in our actions, our visions, our relationships inside and out of the organization. Identity gets deepened as we do the work.
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
But, the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.
Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
The real problem for any government coming to power is to control the civil servants. They will all explain why it is quite impossible to do things other than the way they are currently done.
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind ... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
We have a very simple, clear organization. It's very easy to know who has authority for what, who has responsibility for what. There's no politics about it, they're virtually politics-free organizations.
Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.
It is a characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection differs violently from every other member's recollection.
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity with an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Generally, large companies are so inwardly directed that staff memorandums about growing bureaucracy get more attention than the dwindling competitive advantage of being big in the first place. David, who has a life, needn't use a slingshot. Goliath, who doesn't, is too busy reading office memos.
Bureaucratic time ... slower than geologic time but more expensive than time spent with Madame Claude's girls in Paris.
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At General Motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is hire a consultant on snakes.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
However many people complain about thered tape, it would be sheer illusion to think for a moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out except by means of officials working in offices ... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.
