Thoroughnesscharacterizes

Thoroughnesscharacterizes
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
  

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Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.
If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.
Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
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One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.