In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Anon.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Confucius
If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Townsend
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
Brian Tracy
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
Johann von Goethe
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy Connors
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Edward R. Murrow
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us.
Anon.
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
The Law of Win/Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
Greg Anderson
To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
Stephen Covey
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
George Santayana
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick the Great
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Emmet Fox
Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
Josh Billings
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
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