Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 106

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.
 Rohinton Mistry
Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.
 Warren G. Bennis
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater
By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.
 Ashleigh Brilliant
It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
 Wes Jackson
I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.
 Bill Frisell
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.
 E. O. Wilson
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
 John Bercow
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
 Robert J. Shiller
You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.
 Henry B. Eyring
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
 John Dryden
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.
In the world of Internet Customer Service, it\'s important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.
In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.
 Douglas A. Warner III
There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to acknowledge his goodness to us. He has commanded that this should be so.
 Dean L. Larsen