There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence to see for themselves.

Roethlisberger argues that people who are preoccupied with success ask the wrong question. They ask,

Karl Weick, How Projects Lose Me

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles Spurgeon

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Karl Marx

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

Andrew Motion

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

Georges Bataille

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Judith Guest

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Stephen King

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Bobby Unser

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Blaise Pascal

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody

William Shakespeare