Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Never judge a man by his umbrella. It may not be his.
You must be willing to do the things today others don't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.
-Les Brown, Live Your Dreams
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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