Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 2127.
-
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
-
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
-
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
-
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
-
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
-
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
-
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
-
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
-
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
-
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
-
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
-
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
-
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
-
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
-
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
-
The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
-
The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.
All well-doing famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 76)
