Men Quotes - Page 250

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he should act like a man

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.