No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is read more

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

Patience means self-suffering.

Patience means self-suffering.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as read more

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and read more

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still read more

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.