I think that one should recognize the reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.
If something is too hard, we move on to something else.What could be more simpler than that?
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use a checklist.
There is not more money to be made from law, but less time to enjoy it.
You need patience, discipline, and agility to take losses and adversity without going crazy.
It's not supposed to be easy.Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.
Don't drift into self-pity because it doesn't solve any problems.
You don't have to have the ability that quantum mechanics requires.You just have to know a few simple things and really know them.
Always take the high road, it's far less crowded.
Most people are too fretful, they worry too much.Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time.
Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments.Especially when they challenge your best-loved ideas.
The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust-not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another...
There's a tendency to think that our present politicians are much worse than we had in the past.But we tend to forget how awful our politicians were in the past.
One solution fits all is not the way to go.All these cultures are different.The right culture for the Mayo Clinic is different from the right culture at a Hollywood movie studio.You can't run all these places with a cookie-cutter solution.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.Discharge your duties faithfully and well.Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts...At the end of the day if you live long enough most people get what they deserve.
Some people are extraordinarily good at knowing the limits of their knowledge because they have to be.
Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty.It's not something you do just to advance in life...You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.You're going to advance in life by what you learn after you leave here.
Confucious said that real knowledge is knowing the extent of one's ignorance.Aristotle and Socrates said the same thing.Is it a skill that can be taught or learned? It probably can, if you have enough of a stake riding on the outcome...
Another thing, of course, is that life will have terrible blows in it, horrible blows, unfair blows.It doesn't matter.And some people recover and others don't…