"that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat."

-- Dan Ariely

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Honest Quotes

“It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.”
“Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.”
“If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.”
“But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.”

Source : Song: Still Alive
“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.”
“The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.”
“To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I canâ€™t sing,I can always continue listening to it.”
“My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.”

Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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