This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Rainer Maria Rilke, full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon
You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.
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Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
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Robert Altman, fully Robert Bernard Altman
I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.
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Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.
What follows, then, are seven practical suggestions for bearing the responsibility that comes with leadership without losing one’s effectiveness or collapsing under the strain. They are: (1) get on the balcony, (2) distinguish self from role, (3) externalize the conflict, (4) use partners, (5) listen, using oneself as data, (6) find a sanctuary, and (7) preserve a sense of purpose.
There will come a time when the seed will sprout. (Do not trouble yourself about future problems and difficulties, but wait till you have to deal with them; then will be the time to worry about them,not now)
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It is a good sign when He burdens us with crosses and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Advice | Belief | Deliberation | Prayer | Deliberation |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.