If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
By: Isaac Asimov
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
By: Sir William Arthur
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It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
By: Thomas Arnold
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
By: Æschylus
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
By: Æschylus
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
By: Æschylus
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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
By: Eric Bentley
Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
By: Jack Benny
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.
By: Warren G. Bennis
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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
By: Bible
You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
By: William Adams
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
By: William Adams
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The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--Management.
By: Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
By: Scott Adams
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
By: Henry Brooks Adams