This document contains over 100 quotes on a wide range of topics from history, politics, economics, work, creativity, life, and more from various notable figures throughout history such as Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Twain. The quotes provide insights, observations, and words of wisdom on their respective subjects in brief snippets.

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2. History will be kind to me
for I intend to write it.
...... Winston Churchill

3. Generations
will come to find it difficult to
believe that a man
such as Gandhi
ever walked the
face of this earth.
...... Albert Einstein

4. The charm of history and its enigmatic
lesson
consist in the fact that,
from age to age,
nothing changes and yet
everything is completely different.
...... Aldous Huxley

5. History is
the version of past events
that people have decided
to agree upon.
...... Napoleon Bonaparte

6. Every major horror of history was
committed
in the name of
an altruistic motive.
...... Ayn Rand

7. Those who
cannot remember the past are
condemned
to repeat it.
...... George Santayana

8. Hegel was right
when he said that
we learn from history
that man can never learn anything
from history.
...... George Bernard Shaw

9. Talk to a man about himself
and he will listen for hours.
...... Benjamin Disraeli

10. Everything
that irritates us about others
can lead us to
an understanding of ourselves.
...... Carl Gustav Jung

11. Conscience is the inner voice which
warns us that
someone may be looking.
...... H. L. Mencken

12. You probably wouldn't
worry about what people think of you if you
could know
how seldom they do.
...... Olin Miller

13. The longer I live the more I see
that I am never wrong
about anything,
and that all the pains
that I have so humbly taken
to verify my notions
have only wasted my time.
...... George Bernard Shaw

14. The only thing worse
than being talked about is
not being talked about.
...... Oscar Wilde

15. Creativity is
allowing oneself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
...... Scott Adams, the Dilbert Principle

16. Don't worry about people stealing your
ideas.
If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
...... Howard Aiken

17. Most people are more comfortable
with old problems
than with new solutions.
...... Anonymous

18. A new idea is delicate.
It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by
a frown on the right person's brow.
...... Charles Brower

19. I can't understand
why people are
frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.
...... John Cage

20. If you can't sleep,
then get up and do something
instead of lying there and worrying.
It's the worry that gets you,
not the loss of sleep.
...... Dale Carnegie

21. The empires of the future are the
empires of the mind.
...... Winston Churchill

22. Live out of your imagination,
not your history.
...... Stephen Covey

23. It is not good enough
to have a good mind;
the main thing is
to use it well.
...... Rene Descartes

24. I am enough of an artist
to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
...... Albert Einstein

25. The test of
a first-rate intelligence
is the ability to hold
two opposed ideas in the mind
at the same time, and
still retain the ability to function.
...... F. Scott Fitzgerald

26. There's a saying among prospectors:
quot;Go out looking for one thing, and
that's all you'll ever find.quot;
...... Robert Flaherty

27. Man's mind stretched
to a new idea
never goes back
to its original dimensions.
...... Oliver Wendell Holmes

28. There is one thing
stronger than
all the armies in the world; and that is
an idea
whose time has come.
...... Victor Hugo

29. If I have seen farther than others,
it is because I was standing
on the
shoulders of giants.
...... Isaac Newton

30. If everybody is thinking alike,
then somebody isn't thinking.
...... George S. Patton, Jr.

31. Truth often suffers more
by the heat of its defenders
than the arguments of its opposers.
...... William Penn

32. Every act of creation
is first an act of destruction.
...... Pablo Picasso

33. Even
if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over
if you just sit there.
...... Will Rogers

34. The eyes are not responsible
when the mind does the seeing.
...... Publilius Syrus

35. Discovery consists of
looking at the same thing
as everyone else does
and
thinking something different.
...... Albert Szent-Gyorgyi,
1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine

36. You cannot
depend on your eyes
when
your imagination is out of focus.
...... Mark Twain

37. When people go to work,
they shouldn't
have to leave their hearts
at home.
...... Betty Bender

38. Only positive consequences
encourage good
future performances.
...... Kenneth H. Blanchard

39. The brain is a wonderful organ.
It starts working
the moment you get up in the
morning,
and does not stop
until you get into the office.
...... Robert Frost

40. Good hours, excellent pay,
fun place to work, paid training, mean
boss.
Oh well, four out of five isn't bad.
...... Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994

41. My father taught me to work;
he did not teach me to love it.
...... Abraham Lincoln

42. Executive ability is deciding quickly
and
getting someone else
to do the work.
...... John G. Pollard

43. Disbelief in magic can
force a poor soul
into believing in
government and business.
...... Tom Robbins

44. Whenever you are asked
if you can do a job,
tell 'em, quot;Certainly, I can!quot;
Then get busy
and
find out how to do it.
...... Theodore Roosevelt

45. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of
incompetence.
Therefore:
In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee
who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not
yet reached their level of incompetence.
...... The Peter Principle

46. A memorandum
is written
not to inform the reader
but
to protect the writer.
...... Dean Acheson

47. A conference is a
gathering of important people who
singly can do nothing,
but together can decide
that nothing can be done.
...... Fred Allen

48. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time
we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we
tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and what a wonderful method it can be for
creating the illusion of progress while actually
producing confusion, inefficiency, and
demoralization.
...... Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.

49. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat
scorned.
...... Milton Friedman

50. An economic forecaster
is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower:
they don't win many
accuracy contests,
but they keep the crowd's attention.
...... Anonymous

51. Teach a parrot the
terms quot;supply and demandquot;
and
you've got
an economist.
...... Thomas Carlyle

52. In all recorded history
there has not been one economist
who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
...... Peter F. Drucker

53. If all economists
were laid end to end,
they would not
reach a conclusion.
...... George Bernard Shaw

54. Whining is not only graceless,
but can be dangerous.
It can alert a brute
that a victim is in the neighborhood.
...... Maya Angelou

55. Always behave like a duck
–
keep calm and unruffled
on the surface
but
paddle like the devil underneath.
...... Jacob Braude

56. Let the refining and improving of your own
life
keep you so busy that you have little time
to criticize others.
...... H. Jackson Brown

57. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a
little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy
curiosity.
...... Albert Einstein

58. Don't bother
just to be better
than your contemporaries
or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
...... William Faulkner

59. Don't ever take a fence down
until
you know why it was put up.
...... Robert Frost

60. You can't shake hands
with a clenched fist.
...... Indira Gandhi

61. Always go to the bathroom
when you have a chance.
...... King George V

62. One ought, every day at least, to hear
a little song,
read a good poem,
see a fine picture and,
if possible,
speak a few reasonable words.
...... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

63. A good time
to keep your mouth shut is when
you're in deep water.
...... Sidney Goff

64. Live truth
instead of professing it.
...... Elbert Hubbard

65. Call on God,
but row away from the rocks.
...... Indian proverb

66. When you are right,
you cannot be too radical;
When you are wrong,
you cannot be too conservative.
...... Martin Luther King, Jr.

67. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It
wastes your time and
annoys the pig.
...... Lazarus Long

68. You can't learn too soon that the most
useful thing about a principle is that it can
always be sacrificed to expediency.
...... W. Somerset Maugham

69. If you can't feed a hundred people,
then feed just one.
...... Mother Teresa

70. Give the people not hell,
but hope and courage.
...... John Murray

71. Trust,
but verify.
...... Ronald Reagan

72. We have to keep trying things
we're not sure we can pull off.
If we just do the things
we know we can do...
you don't grow as much.
You gotta take those chances on making
those big mistakes.
...... Cybill Shepherd

73. Always do right;
this will gratify some people
and astonish the rest.
...... Mark Twain

74. Change
before you have to.
...... Jack Welch

75. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep
putting oil in it.
...... Mother Teresa

76. I couldn't wait for success,
so I went ahead without it.
...... Jonathan Winters

77. When you rise in the morning,
form a resolution
to make the day
happy for one fellow creature.
...... Sydney Smith

78. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit
is what keeps you going.
...... Jim Ryuh

79. Why should I deem myself
to be a chisel
when I could be the artist?
...... J.C. von Schiller

80. Develop success from failures.
Discouragement and failure
are two of the surest
stepping stones to success.
...... Dale Carnegie

81. Good works are links
that form a chain of love.
...... Mother Teresa

82. Always do right.
This will gratify some people
and astonish the rest.
...... Mark Twain