"If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list."

-- Hannah Whitall Smith

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Friendly Quotes

“You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.”
“Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.”
“The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.”

Source : 1962 Rationalism in Politics.
“Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.”
“Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.”
“The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.”
“Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.”
“You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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