"How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Failure Quotes #Men Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.”

Source : Maureen Daly (1946). “Seventeenth summer”
“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
“Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.172, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.”
“Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.”
“The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.”
“To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.”
“Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.”

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