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- Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
- Aprocrypha
- Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arab Proverb
- Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
- Dorothy Sarnoff
- This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
- Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)
- Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
- James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
- Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
- Jewish Proverb
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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