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General George Patton On Action Over Perfection
“A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.” – General George Patton
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Michael Masterson On Leadership Versus Bossing
“To lead people, one needs to generate trust and respect. To boss people, one needs to generate only fear.” – Michael Masterson
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Michel de Montaigne On Fear And Suffering
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.” – Michel de Montaigne
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Charlotte Bronte On True Friendship And Selfless Love
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” – Charlotte Bronte
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Oscar Wilde On The Uselessness Of Good Advice
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” – Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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Guy Kawasaki On The Double-Edged Sword Of Entrepreneurship
“The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands! – Guy Kawasaki
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Harold Bloom on Solitude's Greatest Pleasure
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” – Harold Bloom
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Stephen King On Life's Fundamental Choice
“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
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Michael Masterson On Luck And Hard Work
“Hoping for luck is like hoping to find gold. It may be in them thar hills, but if it is, you are going to have to dig for it.” – Michael Masterson
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Mahatma Gandhi On Living With Urgency And Learning Forever
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if youwill live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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Chuck Yeager On Concentrating On Results
“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results.” – Chuck Yeager
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Benjamin Franklin On The Cost Of Ignorance
“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Vince Lombardi On Football's Violent Nature
“Football isn’t a contact sport. It’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.” – Vince Lombardi
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Michael Masterson On Human Hierarchy And Inequality
“Homo sapiens instinctively abhor equality and create hierarchies in every possible way at every possible opportunity.” – Michael Masterson
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Michael Masterson On Expert Overconfidence
“The biggest mistake experts make are beginner mistakes.” – Michael Masterson
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Germaine de Staël on the Nature of Wit
“Wit consists in seeing the resemblance of things that differ and the difference in things that are alike.” – Germaine de Staël
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Mark Twain On Questioning The Majority
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
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Michael Masterson On Confronting Our Strengths And Weaknesses
“The two greatest truths we must face are our strengths and weaknesses.” – Michael Masterson
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Michael Masterson On Finding Meaning In Ordinary Moments
“Life is a continuum of moments. Some are disappointing. Some are gratifying. Most are neither and thus invisible. A well-lived life consists in accepting moments of disappointment and gratification, but most…
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J.D. Salinger On The Artist's Essential Duty
“The job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.” – J.D. Salinger
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Fay Weldon On False Dichotomies
“Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.” – Fay Weldon
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Warren Buffett On Foolproof Business Models
“I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.” – Warren Buffett
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Michael Masterson On Entertainment And Personal Identity
“Our choices in entertainment – the sort of books we read and the movies we go to – say more about us than we would like to admit.” – Michael Masterson
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Goethe On The Paradox Of Knowledge
“Doubt grows with knowledge.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Michael Masterson On Earning The Right To Criticize
“You earn the right to criticize someone only after you have demonstrated the willingness to help someone.” – Michael Masterson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Anger's Cost to Happiness
“For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Toni Morrison On Writing The Book You Want To Read
“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.” – Toni Morrison
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Michael Masterson On Two Types Of Confidence
“There are two types of confidence. Delusionary confidence, which comes from coddling, and genuine confidence, which comes from accomplishment.” – Michael Masterson
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Pearl S. Buck On Sacrificing Small Joys For Big Happiness
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck
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Michael Masterson On Finding True Job Satisfaction
“The surest path to job satisfaction is to work on or for something you care greatly about and/or care greatly about the work you are doing.” – Michael Masterson
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Eric Hoffer On Compassion As Spiritual Antidote
“Compassion is probably the only antitoxin of the soul. Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.” – Eric Hoffer
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Socrates On The Futility Of Endless Wanting
“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he doesn’t but would like to have.” – Socrates
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P.J. O'Rourke On Free Will And Blame
“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on.” – P.J. O’Rourke
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Aristotle On Why Character Matters In Persuasion
“Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: This is true generally…
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Heraclitus on Time and Childhood Wonder
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” – Heraclitus
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Michael Masterson On Behavior And Character
“You can’t act one way and be another. Your behavior is your character. It is who you are.” – Michael Masterson
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Catherine Butler On Internet Privacy's Contradiction
“Privacy on the internet. That’s an oxymoron.” - Catherine Butler
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Close Relationships Buffer Against Aging's Hardships
“Good, close relationships appear to buffer us from the slings and arrows of getting old.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Music's Essential Worth
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jane Austen On The Incurable Nature Of Selfishness
“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” – Jane Austen
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Michael Masterson On Prioritizing Life's Goals
“When you put one of your life’s goals above all others, things change. Situations that used to seem complicated are suddenly easy to understand. Decisions that were once difficult are suddenly simple.” –…
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Bill Bernbach On Advertising's True Impact
“Good advertising builds sales. Great advertising builds factories.” – Bill Bernbach
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Vince Lombardi On Confidence's Contagious Power
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi
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C.S. Spurgeon On Anxiety And Present Strength
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – C.S. Spurgeon
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Zig Ziglar On Determination And Self-Directed Learning
“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, not one can stop you.” – Zig Ziglar
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Robert A. Heinlein on Human Selfishness
“The greatest productive force is human selfishness.” – Robert A. Heinlein
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Michael Masterson on Experience and Ideology
“Experience and Ideology are enemies.” – Michael Masterson
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Michael Masterson On The Paradox Of Perfect Security
“Some believe the perfect society would be one where everyone was guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law…
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Gustave Flaubert On Travel's Humbling Effect
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustave Flaubert
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J.D. Salinger on Inconvenient Truths
“No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.” – J.D. Salinger
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