My memory was a sieve. I could remember nothing. Dates, names, appointments, faces – everything escaped me. I said to my wife, “Catherine, I shall never make a successful politician, for I cannot remember, and that is a prime necessity of politicians.”
My wife told me I must train my memory. So, when I came home [...]
Concerned that he lacked a native facility for remembering names and appointments, and believing that “a politician who sees a man once should remember him forever,” Weed consciously trained his memory. He spent fifteen minutes every night telling his wife, Catherine, everything that had happened to him that day, everyone he had met and the [...]
Never late for appointments, he had no patience with the sin of tardiness, which robbed precious minutes of life from the person who was kept waiting.
- From Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, referring to Salmon Chase’s belief on being late (p. 17)
If his devotion were determined by his lack of “faith in ceremonials and forms,” or by his failure “to observe the Sabbath very scrupulously,” Swett added, “he would fall far short of the standard.” However, if he were judged “by the higher rule of purity of conduct, of honesty of motive, of unyielding fidelity to [...]
The person who says it can’t be done shouldn’t get in the way of the person doing it. – Chinese proverb
I used to do drugs, I mean, I still do, but I used to, too.
I’m fat and I’m starving.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
“It was by ignoring men, and ignoring all small causes, but by closely calculating the tendencies of events and the great forces which where producing logical results.” Furthered by John Forney of the Washington Daily Chronicle, “the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with the propitious circumstances, not [...]
No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly [...]
