It’s easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.
—Clayton M. Christensen (American Academic, Business Consultant)
A country whose population gets its living by cheating is a bad country.
—Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.
—David Sedaris (American Humorist, Essayist)
A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions.
—Joseph Juran (American Quality Scholar)
We are taught that the body should be obedient servant of the mind but there are times when servants know better than their masters.
—Irene Claremont de Castillejo (British Psychoanalyst)
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
—Antonio Porchia (Italian Poet)
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
—John Dryden (English Poet)
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
—Akira Kurosawa (Japanese Film Director)
When we buckle on our armour in any cause, we are apt to go on buckling it, let the cause become as weak as it may.
—Anthony Trollope (English Novelist)
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
—Brian Tracy (American Author)
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
—Jean Giraudoux (French Novelist, Playwright)
Discovering “who I’ve been” is a prelude to finding out “who I’m becoming.” You have to understand the dynamics that have energized your life and how they’ve changed over the years. Then you can begin to see the change that will shape the next phase of your life.
—Shoshana Zuboff (American Social Psychologist)