"Take the tone of the company you are in."

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Lord Chesterfield

#Tone Quotes #Company Quotes

“You're not the center of the universe, you know.”
“No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track.”
“It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense....”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.76, Routledge
“I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.”
“I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.”
“Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.”
“Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.”
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”

Source : Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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