“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
Source: As I Lay Dying (1930)
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Zhou Enlai
(1898–1976) 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times (1 September 1973).
“The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.”
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden only repeated a common aphorism (e.g. Interview on Charlie Rose, reported by Bill Walton), which was already in circulation as early as the 1920s, when he was a youth. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=bks%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3AJan+1_2+1900%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1930&q=%22fail+to+prepare%22+%22prepare+to+fail%22
Misattributed
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes”
John Wooden
(1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
“About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters.”
Source: Musée des Beaux Arts (1938), Lines 1–2
“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
Source: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 19–22
“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
"Notes on Music and Opera", p. 472
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
"The Virgin & The Dynamo", p. 62
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
"One of the Family", p. 369
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”
W. H. Auden
(1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Often attributed to Auden, but he was repeating an anonymous joke; he did not claim to have originated it. See "Who Wrote Auden's Definition of a Professor?" http://www.audensociety.org/definition.html
Misattributed
“One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”
"Reading", p. 11
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)