Alec Waugh Famous Quotes



"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success."


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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
Unknown

"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."
Fritz Kunkel

"The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold."
Lao Tzu

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman

"He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
Richard Willard Armour

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
Napolean Hill

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
George Orwell

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.
Doug Vargas

"To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom."
Confucius