“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
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Wise Quotes — page 111 of 916
“Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.”
“In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.”
“I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.”
“The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.”
“Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.”
“...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)”
“Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.”
“there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be”
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.”
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
“I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.”
“We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.”
“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
“I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.”
“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
“If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.”
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”