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- As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
- Diogenes
- He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
- The Talmud
- When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
- Edith Hamilton
- Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
- Peter Mere Latham
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
- Robert Half
- Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
- Alfred Sheinwold
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