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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life read more
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
 With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . 
Speak what you think to-day in read more 
 With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . 
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and 
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though 
it contradict everything you said to-day. 
The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are read more
The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...
If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
To be prepared is half the victory.
To be prepared is half the victory.
In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in read more
In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.
 No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be 
inconstancy.
 [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii read more 
 No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be 
inconstancy.
 [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit 
esse.] 
 You are harping on the same string.
 [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]  
 You are harping on the same string.
 [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]