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"I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart."

Yeats, William Butler on fanatics and fanaticism    Share


"There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband."

Odets, Clifford on quotations    Share

"Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?"

Perot, H. Ross on elections
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"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."

Burbank, Luther on children    Share

"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them."

Schwab, Charles M. on excellence    Share

"He teaches me to be good that does me good."

Fuller, Thomas on example
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus on education
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"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

Darrow, Clarence on doubt
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"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."

Hoban, Russell on past    Share

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives"

Unknown, Source on curiosity
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"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."

Unknown, Source on education    Share

"In teaching others we teach ourselves."

Proverb on teacher
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"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

Proverb, Latin on learning
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"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere."

Reagan, Ronald on management
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"When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble."

Unknown, Source on doubt    Share

"You can delegate authority, but you can never delegate responsibility for delegating a task to someone else. If you picked the right man, fine, but if you picked the wrong man, the responsibility is yours -- not his."

Krafve, Richard E on delegation    Share

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

Half, Robert on leadership    Share

"Experience teaches only the teachable."

Huxley, Aldous on experience    Share

"Our lives teach us who we are."

Rushdie, Salman on knowledge
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"One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits."

Emmons, G. on success    Share

"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

Rowland, Helen on marriage
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"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on friends and friendship
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention."

Benson, Edward Frederic on happiness
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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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"One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife."

Marx, Groucho on marriage
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"Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

Moss, Richard on listening
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"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose."

Easwaran, Eknath on meditation
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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Whately, Richard on curiosity    Share

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

Godwin, Gail on teacher
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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

Hammarskjold, Dag on integrity
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