“A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.”
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Wise Quotes — page 82 of 916
“Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.”
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
“Taste is the feminine of genius.”
“The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.”
“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop”
“What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”
“Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.”
“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.”
“These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.”
“Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.”
“I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.”
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
“This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.”
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.”
“Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.”
“Never underestimate your own ignorance.”
“Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.”
“One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.”
“We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.”