"There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal."

-- Joseph Addison

#Men Quotes #Deceiving Quotes #Zeal Quotes

“In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.”
“What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.”

Source : "The Paradoxes of Legal Science". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1928.
“If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.”
“Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 25, 2016
“The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.”
“There's going to be a real ding dong when the bell goes.”
“It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.”
“Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.”

Source : John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.78, Pear Press

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