Thomas Hardy
● Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.
● War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
● Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
● Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
● If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.
● There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Theophile Gantier
● To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Tea Rose
● Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
● “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
● “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
T’ao Ch’ien
● Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss.”
Tryon Edwards
● He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Thomas Peters
● Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
● The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Theodore Roosevelt
● It is not the critic who counts, nor the person who points out how the strong person stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is actually marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasm and great devotions, whose life is spent in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and at worst, if failure wins out, it at least wins with greatness, so that this person’s place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
● The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
● The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
● The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
● To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
● No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community. We keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life by which we surround them. |