598 Followers 754 FollowingGood writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
554 Followers 747 FollowingThe Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--Management.
633 Followers 767 FollowingThere is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
603 Followers 789 FollowingThere seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
581 Followers 775 FollowingI have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
579 Followers 760 FollowingMore important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
580 Followers 621 FollowingI thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
635 Followers 739 FollowingOur common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
582 Followers 686 FollowingMy childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
593 Followers 692 FollowingHistories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
572 Followers 769 FollowingThe real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
616 Followers 766 FollowingThere is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
590 Followers 774 FollowingWhen I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
576 Followers 798 FollowingIt is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
555 Followers 796 FollowingThe goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.
595 Followers 735 FollowingWhoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness--great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
601 Followers 576 FollowingWar like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
609 Followers 767 FollowingIdeas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
587 Followers 780 FollowingI begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
598 Followers 736 FollowingThe prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.