W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

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Evan Davis

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

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Dee Hock

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

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Quentin Crisp

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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Koran

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

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Nikki Giovanni

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

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Louis L\'Amour

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

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Abraham Maslow

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

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Moralia

Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

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Walt Disney, Inauguration day of Disney World

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

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