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- I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
- Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
- The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness....
- The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on…
- The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
- Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
- Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
- Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than…
- The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people…
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
- Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most…
- The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind…
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. It is astonishing how many have difficulty in putting…
- Opportunity is missed by most people, because its dressed in overalls and looks like work! Thomas Edison
- Oppurtunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster