A gem is not

A gem is not
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.
  

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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They
Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.
It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.
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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.
One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur