Charles Wheelan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
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A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
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Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.
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Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.
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Being great involves luck, and unique circumstances, and a lot of other forces beyond your control. You can’t just make it happen by working more or trying harder. There is an irony here, of course. The less you think about being great, the more likely it is to happen. And if it doesn’t, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being solid.
-- Charles Wheelan
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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