top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted."
Standard
Customized
More
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are capable of greatness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left."
Enemy
"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."
Men
"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."
Science
"Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted."
Ability
"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin."
Science
"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."
Leadership
"Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies."
Wind
"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."
Music
"Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light."
Care
"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings."
Care
bottom of page