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- Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
- Peter Marshall
- Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Unknown
- If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
- Dorothy Law Nolte
- If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), "If"
- Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
- Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- Charles William Dement
- The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
- Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
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