Power is like being a lady . . . if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Topic: Awareness, Leadership, Power
- Location: Gulf of Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
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Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.
You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.