Thoroughnesscharacterizes

Thoroughnesscharacterizes
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
  

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Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.
Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.
Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.
When weblame, we give away our power.
If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Our distrust is very expensive.