"The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good."

-- Joe Kraus

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“The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.”
“How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.”

Source : "Q&A: Henry Winkler, children's book author". Interview with Jenniffer Weigel, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 23, 2014.
“There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.”
“I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.”
“I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
“the highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible...”

Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.229, Transaction Publishers
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
“The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if someone appears elsewhere whose need is greater it leaves its old channel and moves toward him. Our generosity may leave us empty, but our emptiness then pulls gently at the whole until the thing in motion returns to replenish us. Social nature abhors a vacuum.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.29, Vintage

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