All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 38
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
Paul Johnson
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give your pain its due.
Jasinda Wilder
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.
Thomas Keller
Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.
When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.
Edmund Fuller
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
Lois Capps
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Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.
