“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.”
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Wise Quotes — page 207 of 916
“We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.”
“Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.”
“A boss who micromanages is like a coach who wants to get in the game. Leaders guide and support and then sit back to cheer from the sidelines.”
“Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.”
“We very often confuse personality with leadership.”
“Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.”
“When one teaches, two learn.”
“To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.”
“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”
“The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.”
“A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.”
“By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.”
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.”
“He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.”
“Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
“You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
“That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.”
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
“If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.”