The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Although spoken English doesn’t obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn’t know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It’s not because they taste best.
I believe a ‘talented’ person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn’t embarrassed that he or she asked.
Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don’t have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you’re sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
While you’re writing, you can’t concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don’t take it personally. Instead, find out what’s needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don’t take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don’t have time to read.
There’s plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
It is a lot easier to prove that you don’t love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best ‘proofs’ I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.