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| Never confuse movement with action. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. |
Erica Jong |
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| Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame. |
Erica Jong |
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| Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. |
Erica Jong |
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| Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. |
Erica Jong |
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| True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. |
Erica Jong |
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| I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. |
Erica Jong |
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| I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. |
Erica Jong |
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| If you don't risk anything you risk even more. |
Erica Jong |
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| Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. |
Erica Jong |
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| A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. |
Erica Jong |
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| Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. |
Erica Jong |
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| An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. |
Washington Irving |
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| A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. |
Washington Irving |
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| I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. |
Washington Irving |
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| Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. |
Washington Irving |
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| Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles. |
Washington Irving |
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| Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. |
Washington Irving |
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| There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. |
Washington Irving |
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| There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims) |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Conceit causes more conversation than wit. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| One forgives to the degree that one loves. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| We are never so happy or unhappy as we think. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Our minds are lazier than our bodies. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment. |
La Rochefoucauld |
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| Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. |
Andrew Brown |
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| Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. |
Don Hays |
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| In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. |
Norman O. Brown |
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| All currency is neurotic currency. |
Norman O. Brown |
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| The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. |
Norman O. Brown |
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| You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. |
Harry Firestone |
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| It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. |
Harry Firestone |
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| Talent does what it can genius does what it must. |
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
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| Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. |
Warren Bennis |
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| The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need. |
Warren Bennis |
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| Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. |
Warren Bennis |
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| There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. |
Warren Bennis |
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| Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. |
Warren Bennis |
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| Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. |
Warren Bennis |
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| Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. |
Warren Bennis |
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| Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. |
Warren Bennis |
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| People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. |
Warren Bennis |
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| What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination. |
Warren Bennis |
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| Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. |
Warren Bennis |
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| The factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment. |
Warren Bennis |
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| The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. |
Warren Bennis |
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| You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. |
Warren Bennis |
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| Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. |
Rich Kulawiec |
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| There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper' |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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