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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake read more
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll
be halfway there.
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll
be halfway there.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not
change their minds are incompetents in asylums who read more
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not
change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those in
cemeteries.
