John W Hanley Famous Quotes
"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."
John W Hanley Quotations
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
D A Battista
"God creates men, but they choose each other."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
Sir Winston Churchill
What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
William Zinsser
"In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy."
Haniel Long
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
George Santayana
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)"
Phil Gramm
"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
W Somerset Maugham
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche