Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
– Bernard M. Baruch, businessman, statesman.
Tag: wisdom
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what tehy teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.
– Helen Macdonald in her book: Vesper Flights
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
Almost anybody can write a good love story. It’s much harder and more interesting to find out what it takes to be married for 50 years.
-Diana Gabaldon on writing the Outlander books.
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer, philosopher
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.
-Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Supreme Court Justice 1916-1939.
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
When we look at the ocean all we see is the surface. But what is actually down there is a whole other world that’s not only mysterious but also generates fear. And I was drawn to that.
Greg Skomal, World’s leading authority on white sharks in the Atlantic
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
If what I do can make a difference, can improve someone else’s life, if only for a moment, then it is worth doing.
-From the book Wintering Well by Lea Wait
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Business and government must collaborate better to create opportunity for all.
-Jamie Dimon CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
― Hal Borland
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
