General quotes
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Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Understanding is a two-way street.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar — a practice which is still continued.
Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.
If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.
Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
I think about only me.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
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