You56 Quotes & Sayings

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before. — Margaret Mead

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. — Hesketh Pearson

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive. — Dave Matthews

For many years, psychologists believed that in any domain, success depended on talent first and motivation second. To groom world-class athletes and musicians, experts looked for people with the right raw abilities, and then sought to motivate them. If you want to find people who can dunk like Michael Jordan or play piano like Beethoven, it's only natural to start by screening candidates for leaping ability and an ear for music. But in recent years, psychologists have come to believe that this approach may be backward. — Adam M. Grant

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. — Robert Orben