“People consider it compassionate not to be honest with people. It’s not. That’s disrespectful.” - Carly Fiorina on dealing with poor performance
“Learning to read is at least as complex as learning to ski or to typewrite or to play tennis.” – Mortimer Adler
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas A. Edison
‘If a man will begin in certainties he will end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.’ - Sir Francis Bacon
"Comedy is half about bringing people to a revelation that would be uncomfortable if they weren't laughing." Chris Rock (via Jon Acuff)
"SOME people are influenced by the Church but EVERYONE is influenced by family." - Reggie Joiner
“Never let anyone come to you without coming away better and happier.”– Mother Teresa [I love this!]
[speaking about capitalism] “The model did not work, but it was for years the only one available. Capitalist economists made no serious effort to deal with the justice question. Now we must create new models which are both moral and practical. What form should they take?” – Charles West
"The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all" - dahara via Carlos Whittaker
