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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is read more
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The read more
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether the attitude is positive or negative.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But read more
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes read more
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
