top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
Author Name
Personal Development
"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own." I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regulartly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they're the ones to take it away from you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man."
Man
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
Knowledge
"Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century."
Life
"I have been driven demented in my career."
Career
"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."
Life
"Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand."
Emotional
"I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity."
Humility
"This is the war I fear."
War
"My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well."
Family
"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."
Confidence
bottom of page