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strong jobs men
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers. Charles Caleb Colton
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
strong party reason
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
strong hands monsters
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
strong advice desire
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
strong passion may
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
strong men thinking
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
strong circles errors
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
strong two mind
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
mediocrity genius birth
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities Cesare Lombroso
mediocrity culture defeat
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, Eddie McGuire
mediocrity century bureaucracy
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Benedict Cumberbatch
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity. Charles Lamb
mediocrity useless vapid
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov
mediocrity application superiority
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Baltasar Gracian
mediocrity individual sole
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. Boris Pasternak
mediocrity typical should
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. Bruce Henderson
mediocrity possession native
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Blaise Pascal
communism communist myth
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. Barbara Tuchman
communism crap
I always thought communism was crap, really. Alexei Sayle
communism understood
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. Elia Kazan
communism capitalism survived
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. Charles Bukowski
communism die fall falls margaret medicine money people run socialism treatment waiting weight
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke. Louie Gohmert
communism crusades imaginary
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. A. J. P. Taylor
communism economic emphasis freedom individual liberties lived lives looking toward western
Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity. Vaclav Klaus
communism europe fact freed led poland poles process threw united until
Poles freed not just themselves, they launched a process which radiates until today, ... The fact that Poland threw off the yoke of communism led to the unification of Europe and a united Germany. Horst Koehler
communism has-beens
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over. Dorothy Day