Will Christian
Will Christian
leadership mistake character
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
men agents certain
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
virtue vicious virtuous
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
death loss heaven
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
society ingredients company
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
names self consciousness
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
men trouble earnest
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
resources thrown
It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
apples expectations way
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.
love gay expression
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.
life profound understanding
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
book matter juice
The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
criticism deserve
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
book development want
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.