Newell Dwight Hillis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Fear #Elements #Events
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Book #Giving #Mind
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Leadership #Dust #Self
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Happiness #Medicine #Worry
Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision....
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Friendship #Leader #Brave
Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Education #Teacher #Character
Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Heart #Learning #Intelligence
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
-- Newell Dwight Hillis

#Men #Choices #Ease

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

Newell Dwight Hillis famous quotes

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