Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Einstein , US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane E. Brody ,
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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about. Great short quote and quotation by: C. C. Colton ,
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We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. Great short quote and quotation by: Rabbi Harold Kushner ,
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We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but […]
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John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us. Great short quote and quotation by: John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley , US novelist (1902 – 1968)
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer , (1902 – 1983)
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Covey ,
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is […]
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Great short quote and quotation by: Herbert Simon, economist ,
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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Great short quote and quotation by: Jiddu Krishnamurti ,
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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea – possessing them – that what has been said has still not been said enough. Great short quote and quotation by: Eugene Delacroix , French Romantic painter (1798 – 1863)