This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willard Gibbs, fully Josiah Willard Gibbs
In all these papers we see a love of honest work, an aversion to shams, a caution in the enunciation of conclusions, a distrust of rash generalizations and speculations based on uncertain premises. He was never anxious to add one more guess on doubtful matters in the hope of hitting the truth, or what might pass as such for a time, but was always ready to take infinite pains in the most careful testing of every theory. With these qualities was united a modesty which forbade the pushing of his own claims and desired no reputation except the unsought tribute of competent judges.
Success |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience and enthusiasm.
Courage | Failure | Individual | Present | Success | Failure | Loss |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
People don't care what you know. They just want to know that you care.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
People spend money when and where they feel good.
Walter Pater, fully Walter Horatio Pater
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Experience | Focus | Present | Success |
Walter Pater, fully Walter Horatio Pater
To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
Success |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Success | Temptation | Temptation |
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Great Groups are vivid Utopias. They are a picture of the way organizations ought to look -- sort of like a set of aspirations and a graphic illustration of what's possible. So how do we, in our mundane, quotidian organizations, create these things? I think there are a number of factors that we can look at. Perhaps the key factor, and it's almost a banal thing to say, is finding a meaning in what you do. That is, how do you make people feel that what they're doing is somewhat equivalent to a search for the Holy Grail? This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Intelligence | Need | Success |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything — you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"
Business | Chance | Good | Important | Success | Business | Value |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Don’t demand anything, loosen up and be willing to allow a miracle to happen without any insistence and then everything will come to you that you need.