If men would consider not so much wherein they differ as wherein they agree there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we want we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences dont make us weak. Theyre the source of our strength…. The question is not when we came here … but why our families came here. And what we did after we arrived.
You see wire telegraph is a kind of a very very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ trust and reward those whose perspective ability and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare for it requires uncommon humility tolerance and wisdom.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties passing from one step of success to another forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy.
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
And now for something completely different.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ as wherein they agree there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
The Universal is always the same the specifics are always different.
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we dont have what we want we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer?
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
We usually get what we anticipate….
It?s easy to make a buck. It?s a lot tougher to make a difference.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Theres an alternative. Theres always a third way and its not a combination of the other two ways its a different way.
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences dont make us weak. Theyre the source of our strength…. The question is not when we came here … but why our families came here. And what we did after we arrived.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
To think is to differ.
Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
You see wire telegraph is a kind of a very very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter
Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You don?t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
To lengthen thy life lessen thy meals.
Youve got to take the bitter with the sour.
When I decide to be happy I am. When I allow others to decide whether I will or will not I?m usually not.
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ trust and reward those whose perspective ability and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare for it requires uncommon humility tolerance and wisdom.
When we lose the right to be different we lose the privilege to be free.
In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties passing from one step of success to another forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.
To safeguard ones health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.
Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he has not been caught.