The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making read more
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an read more
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!
Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which read more
Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It
is a constant state of awareness of oneness read more
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It
is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged
in work we enjoy on read more
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged
in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for
ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It
makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own read more
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully
nor for much longer unless we see read more
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully
nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as
common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
