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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed read more
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.
What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have read more
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful read more
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
