“Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.”
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Wise Quotes — page 123 of 916
“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
“For the wise man, every day is a festival.”
“Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.”
“To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”
“I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.”
“He listens well who takes notes.”
“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.”
“No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.”
“The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.”
“God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.”
“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”
“I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.”
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
“The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?”
“Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".”
“You are what you repeatedly do”
“Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.”
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”