2098 Quotations Found

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Author: Winston Churchill | Subject: Communication

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Author: Winston Churchill | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

Author: Rabbi Harold Kushner | Subjects: Gratitude, Personal Improvement

Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Author: Howard Zinn | Subjects: Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology

One thing I think about how humans work—the only thing that can replace one story is another story.

Author: Yuval Noah Harari | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior, Stories

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Author: Carlos Castaneda | Subject: Personal Improvement

We have a society which is structured so that social esteem or value is connected to what we can consume. And so the inability to consume affects the kind of social value that we have. Money displayed in terms of consumer goods just becomes a measure of worth, and that’s really important to people.

Author: Juliet Schor | Source: Vox | Subjects: Consumerism, Life & Society

The key impetus for contemporary consumer society has been the growth of inequality, the existence of unequal social structures, and the role that consumption came to play in establishing people’s position in that unequal hierarchy. For many people, it’s about consuming to their social position, and trying to keep up with their social position.

It’s not necessarily experienced by people in that way — it’s … [ Read more ]

Author: Juliet Schor | Source: Vox | Subjects: Consumerism, Economics | Economy, Life & Society

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Author: Howard Bloom | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Author: Dwayne Johnson | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Author: Muhammad Ali | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

Author: Leo Strauss | Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology | Behavior

Because people want to believe they are good, they are highly susceptible to appeals to their better angels.

Author: Daniel Akst | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

There is one all-important law of human conduct. Always make the other person feel important.

Author: Dale Carnegie | Subject: Personal Improvement

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Author: Dale Carnegie | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Now the method of employing men is to use the avaricious and the foolish, the wise and the brave, and to give responsibility to each in situations that suit him. Do not charge people to do what they cannot do. Select them and give them responsibilities commensurate with their abilities.

Author: Sun Tzu | Subjects: Business, Leadership, Life & Society

The past, as we all know, is dead. Yet we perpetuate its anguish, preserve its romance, and appreciate, by God, its beauty.

Author: Lee Smith | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Those who have a why can endure any how.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

Author: Mary Anne Radmacher | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Author: George F. Will | Subjects: Insight, Psychology | Behavior