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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Humour is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
I am a waning bird encased in a glass sphere; I cannot see my prison, and my cries no one can hear.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase likemaybe we should be just friendsturns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
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.
I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.
I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Passionate leadership won't succeed if contradictory signals are sent out.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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.
What did it for me? It wasn't my education or experience. It was my passion.
I've found that when it came to doing something I loved and fighting for it, things worked out. If you're going to kill yourself to develop something, you've got to enjoy it.
Throne of Glassreaders tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcomingTOGreaders are to new fans.
If you follow your passion, the money will follow. But if you chase the almighty dollar, you can easily lose that and end up with nothing.
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
We seriously undervalue the passion ... a person brings to an enterprise. You can rent a brain, but you can't rent a heart.
By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.
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?
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.
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart. Ultimately, you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you.
If you don't have passion ... you might as well give up ... you have no chance of making it. Passion is the essence of life, and certainly the essence of success.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their employees there would have been no unions.
Accountants and market researchers may be brilliant at examining and analysing facts about the past, but they have no forward vision.
It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future.
I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by history of the past.
Most canele recipes begin with an instruction to brush $30 copper molds with melted beeswax. Unsurprisingly, I've never made it past the Internet search forused canele moldsbefore giving up.
Who controls the past controls ... the future: who controls the present controls the past.
The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
It's a well-known proposition that you know who's going to win a negotiation: it's he who pauses the longest.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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.
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
People will forget what you said
Poeple will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
A test of whether you have achieved true fame is when a deranged person believes himself to be you.
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife saidwhy don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?. And it is what I have done.
Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things.
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, not should they be.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
The kinds of people we employ are not afraid of taking risks. If someone mucks up, they don't get a bollocking from me. They know they've mucked up and they redouble their efforts.
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
If you are having as much fun running a big corporation as you did running a piece of it, then you are probably interfering too much with the people who really make it happen.
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.
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.
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.
Love, friendship, respect do not unite people so much as common hatred for something.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
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.
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.
If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
It's fun to do things that people don't think are possible or likely.
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.
If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.
People are the lifeblood of any airline, and it is the people of BA who will deliver its future success.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
There are many excuses for the persons who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company.
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps ... If the president of a company has a clean desk ... then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
Everything is always impossible before it works. That is what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible.
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
You can't treat your people like an expense item.
When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.
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.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
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.
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.
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 used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
I think leadership is valuing the time you spend with your people more than anything else you do.
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
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.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
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.
It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail.
To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.
To the stars who listen-and the dreams that are answered.
I don't know any executive who ever thought about stress, although a lot of other people do. No one ever dies of hard work. But a lot of people die once they retire from an active job.
People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organization ... managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with the ideas.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Human resources are the greatest assets of any company. You can raise tariffs or prevent MNCs from entering, but one can't stop the employees from leaving if they are dissatisfied.
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
You don't need to interpret the tea leaves stuck in a cup to understand that people who work sitting down get paid more than those people who work standing up.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.
A chairman who never wanders about his agency becomes a hermit, out of touch with his staff.
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
For the whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
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 person who knowshowwill always have a job. The person who knowswhywill always be his boss.
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?
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that theydon't understandone another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Behind all its global responsibilities and impersonal style banking is still apeople business... it may be the most personal business of all for it always depends on the original concept of credit, meaning trust.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.
For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying,OK, I don't have anything left.But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like,Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.
I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
I think giving up people is a difficult thing.
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Ever think of introducing yourself?Y.T. says.
Nah,he says,people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?
The only people who never make mistakes are those who have never taken a decision.
I loathe people who keep dogs. They're cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves.
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.
Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
All the president is is a glorified PR man who spends his life flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say,We did this ourselves.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
The point of work-out is to give people better jobs. When people see that their ideas count, their dignity is raised. Instead of feeling numb, like robots, they feel important.
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family ... It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
You have to surround yourself with people you trust, and people that are good. But they also have to be people who will tell the emperor you have no clothes.
I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.
A land without a people for a people without a land.
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.
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.
I was delighted to see that you thought I was as good as I thought I was.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
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.
You have certainly exceeded my expectation. I thought you would be perfect.
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.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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...
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is,Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
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.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness - its opposite - never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Opportunities are not offered; they must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and tenacity, determination and courage.
You can only stumble if you're moving.
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.
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.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
A terrace nine stories high rises from a handful of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
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.
Real salesmen stick until the buyer has used up his lastNo.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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.
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
My style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.
A terrace nine stories high rises from a handful of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
Real salesmen stick until the buyer has used up his lastNo.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase likemaybe we should be just friendsturns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.
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.
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
When you think about it, giving up yourrealpersonality is a small price to pay for the richness ofliving happily ever afterwith an actual man!
If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
He looked like the kind of a guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.
Behind all its global responsibilities and impersonal style banking is still apeople business... it may be the most personal business of all for it always depends on the original concept of credit, meaning trust.
Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
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.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
I'd love to make a movie with Tom Hardy. If we ever got the chance to make a Venom movie together, that would be super-cool, but his movie would have to take place in the MCU because I'm not giving up my ticket in the MCU.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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.
No plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.
If you are planning for one year, plant rice. If you are planning for ten years plant trees. If you are planning for 100 years plant people.
And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for the Emperor can actually do nothing.
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
There are two ways to compete - in stable conditions, you plan and you compete on scale. In unstable times, you live by your wits.
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions.
Growth is like creativity, it doesn't go along very neat, precise plans. You get clogged highways before you figure out a way to open up capacity. You get pollution before you figure out a way to fight it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four, and Five as pure fantasy ... Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations ... here the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few to defeat.
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
If something pleasant happens to you, don't forget to tell it to your friends, to make them feel bad.
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
There is no time like the pleasant.
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Next to having a staunch friend is the pleasure of having a brilliant enemy.
Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour.
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this -devoted and obedient.This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
I am not a centrist.
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Each man the architect of his own fate.
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet - perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, Good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, Oh, save me from the candid friend!
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations ... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
There is no education like adversity.
I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.
If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it's vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
You can't fight against the future. Time is on our side.
Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.
I like a nice cup of tea in the morning,
For to start the day, you see,
And at half-past eleven
Well, my idea of Heaven
Is a nice cup of tea:
I like a nice cup of tea with me dinner
And a nice cup of tea with me tea,
And when it's time for bed
There's a lot to be said
For a nice cup of tea.
There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
Others appear frozen in the headlights - aware of the likely impact, yet paralysed by the fear of major transformations.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
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.
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, and see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes).
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?
I suppose flattery hurts no one - that is, if he doesn't inhale.
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.
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say.You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.
Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
Glass is, in general, the enemy of secrets. It is also the enemy of possession.
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible.
Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?
NoSimon said,
If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.
Not everything is about you,Clary said furiously.
Possibly,Jace said,
but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
It's fun to do things that people don't think are possible or likely.
It is practically impossible for a top management man, or even middle management, to be doing the degree and level of work that he should be doing and, at the same time, have a clean desk.
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.
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.
It is not impossibilities which fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Leadership is the process of achieving a dream together, especially when that dream seems impossible to achieve.
I believe in my own possibilities, and I feel I can do it all.
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
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!
Jesus said unto him, If thou
wilt be perfect, go and sell that
thou hast, and give to the poor,
and thou shalt have treasure in
heaven: and come and follow me.
She was poor but she was honest,
Victim of a rich man's game.
First he loved her, then he left her,
And she lost her maiden name ...
It's the same the whole world over,
It's the poor wot gets the blame,
It's the rich wot gets the gravy.
Ain't it all a bleedin' shame?
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
Glass is, in general, the enemy of secrets. It is also the enemy of possession.
Women do two thirds of the world's work ... Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
There are only two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money away from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Four spectres haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
Globalization is an opportunity. Well managed, it will help drive forward efforts to build prosperity and eliminate poverty. Badly managed it will increase the divide between rich and poor.
The realhavesare they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the realhave notsare they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men - the balance wheel of the social machinery ... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
A credit card is a money tool, not a supplement to money. The failure to make this distinction hassupplementedmany a poor soul right into bankruptcy.
Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
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.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power.
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.
I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.
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.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now, he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined, and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too!
The stronger man's argument is always the best.
There are only two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money away from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
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.
Success is power; because it maketh reputation of wisdom, or good fortune; which makes men either fear him or rely on him.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support, and opens the way to wealth, honor, and happiness.
When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
I see nothing wrong with power as long as I am the fellow who has it.
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.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Who controls the past controls ... the future: who controls the present controls the past.
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Men are still clinging to the hope that women are powerless, because they haven't got much else to cling to.
O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.
Watch how a man takes praise and there you have the measure of him.
I praise loudly, I blame softly.
I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.
Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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.
Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
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.
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.
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions.
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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.
Tax laws also benefit those who have the best lobbying efforts ... and the larger the corporations are, the smaller proportion they pay in taxes.
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
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.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps ... If the president of a company has a clean desk ... then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
One man with courage makes a majority.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by history of the past.
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
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.
The most dangerous man in America.
The press is the enemy.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.
It's true hard work never killed anyone but I figure why take the chance?
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
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.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
There is no indispensable man.
Throughout the world, change is the order of the day.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,Certainly I can!Then get busy and find out how to do it.
All the president is is a glorified PR man who spends his life flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
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.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig.
My deepest, strongest desire in marrying you, Darling, is to make you happy, and I would put into this some word of love which would seem to your heart a sort of sweet preface to the book of love which we are about to open together, to read new secrets of sympathy and companionship. I would have you catch a glimpse of my purpose for the future and of the joy which that future contains for me, of the gratitude I feel for your priceless gift of love, and of the infinite love and tenderness which is the gift of my whole heart to you.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils.
There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight.
The only way many companies can attract and keep the best people is by offering them more than merely money or prestige - they offer them the chance to make history.
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.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Some time when you're feeling important
Some time when your ego's in bloom
Some time when you feel you are
The best qualified man in the room,
Some time when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles the soul.
Take a bucket and fill it with water
Place your hands in it up to your wrists
Take them out and the hole that remains
Is a measure of how you'll be missed.
You may splash all you like as they enter
You may stir up the water galore
But take them out and in just a moment
It will look just the same as before.
The moral of this is quite simple
Just do the best that you can.
Be proud of yourself but remember
There is no indispensable man.
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
When the meek inherit the earth, lawyers will be there to work out the deal.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Pride should consist in doing your job in the best possible manner.
I wouldn't be human if I didn't feel pride and something that transcends pride ... humility.
I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family ... It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.
There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Infantile love follows the principle:I love because I am loved.
Mature love follows the principle:I am loved because I love.
Immature love says:I love you because I need you.
Mature love says:I need you because I love you.
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.
I don't believe in principles. Principles are only excuses for what we want to think or what we want to do.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with it.
Whenever we have compromised on our principles, we and our customers have been the losers.
Business doesn't have to choose between making profit and protecting the environment, between economic success and ethical responsibility, between satisfying the customer and meeting the demands of other stakeholders. In other words, we don't have to make a choice between profits and principles.
The priority in life is to keep an eye on the business and not to get lured into the high social life with groupie-type poseurs who wish to be seen with the new blue-eyed boy.
For I was an hungred,
and ye gave me meat: I was
thirsty, and ye gave me drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took
me in.
Naked, and ye clothed
me: I was sick, and ye visited
me: I was in prison, and ye
came to me.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Better build schoolrooms forthe boy,
Than cells and gibbets forthe man.
I am a waning bird encased in a glass sphere; I cannot see my prison, and my cries no one can hear.
Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience ... I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
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.
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
When dealing with complexity and uncertainty, trust and openness become critical.
When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem.
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.
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.
A huge problem we face when we're in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know how much oil one must mix with one's vinegar.
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.
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
Never confuse movement with action.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing; seize the day, put no trust in the future.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
My rule is always to do the business of the day in the day.
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.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
The real impediment to producing a higher-quality product more efficiently isn't the workers, union or nonunion, it's management.
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.
The largest profits go to those businesses which most devotedly follow a policy of insisting on a competitive advantage, no matter how small, for every product or service they market.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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.
Keeping dreams alive and trying to make them come true is crucial in the watch business. We're in the business of selling emotional products.
The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury ... They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may chuse how far he will use the commodity which is taxed.
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.
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
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.
For a woman to attain a high level in a male-dominated profession, she has to work twice as hard and/or be twice as smart.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?
Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Growth is like creativity, it doesn't go along very neat, precise plans. You get clogged highways before you figure out a way to open up capacity. You get pollution before you figure out a way to fight it.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
An environment which calls for perfection is not likely to be easy. But aiming for it is always good for progress.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Globalization is an opportunity. Well managed, it will help drive forward efforts to build prosperity and eliminate poverty. Badly managed it will increase the divide between rich and poor.
If we are to be more prosperous we need more millionaires and more bankrupts.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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.
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Publicity is easy to get. Just be so successful you don't need it, and then you'll get it.
Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience ... I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
To be dilatory about giving orders, but to expect absolute punctuality, that is called being a tormentor.
All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.
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.
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.