Wisdom It Services Quotes & Sayings

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. — Paul Auster

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday. — Anton Chekhov

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it — Myles Munroe

Mentors have their own strengths and weaknesses. The good ones allow you to develop your own style and then to leave them when the time is right. Such types can remain lifelong friends and allies. But often the opposite will occur. They grow dependent on your services and want to keep you indentured. They envy your youth and unconsciously hinder you, or become overcritical. You must be aware of this as it develops. Your goal is to get as much out of them as possible, but at a certain point you may pay a price if you stay too long and let them subvert your confidence. Your submitting to their authority is by no means unconditional, and in fact your goal all along is eventually to find your way to independence, having internalized and adapted their wisdom. — Robert Greene

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. — R. K. Milholland

Professional competitions are overrated. — Oksana Baiul

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own. — William Cowper

In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka. — Patricia Highsmith

We have to have a commonality and purpose. We have to understand that each of us is dependent on the success of the others in the organization to reach the goals we're trying to accomplish. It's never an easy thing. — Rick Welts

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. — Lisa Randall

He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line "The land was ours before we were the land's." What a scandal that would be, America's best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry. — Jim Harrison

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. — Matthew

I wasn't strong enough to resist you. - Douglas Clayborne — Julie Garwood

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom. — Pythagoras

If the will of God was for us to be sick, then no one disregarded the will of God more than Jesus. Every time He healed someone, He may have cheated them of a lesson they needed to develop their character. — Praying Medic