The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching. — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
Conte at the top level is an example at Chelsea. He didn't start very well. He is similar to me. He's a… — Paolo di Canio Copy Share Image
The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity. — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Don’t say it if you’re not going to live it. And if you’re going to live it, you don’t have to say… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me.… — Joe Miller Copy Share Image
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In the communist revolution in North Korea, when they threw out the Japanese occupiers, they claimed the power in the dynamic of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite… — Benjamin Zablocki Copy Share Image
It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image