Mañana es el dia mas ocupado de la semana (Tomorrow is the busiest day of the week)
Spanish Proverb
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Category: Quotations (Page 33 of 52)
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
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The Diplo calendar 2016 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of quotes from the Classical World for living and working better.
For the month of April the selected quotation is by Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing no wind is favourable
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If you see all grey, move the elephant (Indian proverb)
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The contemplative life requires discipline and hard work, for sure. But it also seems to require some time indulging pleasures.
There is much fascinating variety in the daily habits of celebrity and creative humanists to be discovered browsing their biographies.
Monkish and lonely Nietsche used to eat incredible amounts of fruits at lunch, and a much loved beefsteak, before setting himself for long mountain walks in the Swiss Alps.
Prodigious Karl Marx was accustomed to working long hours at night, accompanied by ceaseless smoking.
Rather predictable and orderly Immanuel Kant tried to stick to the rule that he would smoke only one pipe, but the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on…
Remember Gustave Flaubert’s maxim?
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Maybe, the addition of a little “bad habit” or two might help too!
Discover more here…
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Yesterday is dust, tomorrow a dream, our gift is now. Gabriel Byrne
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All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller
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Courage is Grace Under Pressure – Ernest Hemingway
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