The reasonable man

The reasonable man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
  

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Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it
Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".
Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.
In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.
All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.