Allen Wheelis famous quotes

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Suffering #Action #Insight

So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Past #Years #Shapes

Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Men #Emotional #Risk

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Science #Giving #Spirit

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Animal #Herds #Tendencies

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Desire #Despair #Intense

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.
-- Allen Wheelis

#Alternatives #May #Consciousness

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

suffering is the essence of success!!!

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.