Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
14 April 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
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Richard Boyatzis (1946) American business theorist
Source: Competent manager (1982), p. 60.
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Slate interview (2015)
Context: I just wanted something symbolic, something that everybody could understand easily, and everybody could share regardless of where they’re from and whether they’re a keen observer of illustration usually. I just wanted something universal. … a few people from different places follow my work, and I enjoy communicating to them, usually for happier reasons. What I do in general is try to communicate with people — and I’m aware that the more you want to communicate to a larger audience, the more universal and simple you have to be. It’s an image for everyone. It’s not my image — it’s not a piece of work that I’m proud of or anything — I didn’t create it to get credit or benefit from it. I just wanted to express myself, and from experience I know that through social media people like expressing themselves, or need to express themselves. It is somehow quite organic, the way these things go — you can’t really plan on it. I would just say that if people have used it so much, and if they felt like it was useful for them to share, then the image worked and I’m happy, so to speak, even though happiness is not really a thought that springs to my mind in such horrible times.
“It would be a great things, a brave thing, for the Hindus to achieve act of self-denial.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 12 March 1931. Quoted from Hinduism and Judaism compilation https://web.archive.org/web/20060423090103/http://www.nhsf.org.uk/images/stories/HinduDharma/Interfaith/hinduzion.pdf <br class="br">1930s
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer
My Twisted World (2014), Final Days
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American writer
“Wanting and needing are two different things.”
Richelle Mead (1976) American writer
Source: Succubus Dreams
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
Source: Bernard Shaw in Twilight (1943), IV
Context: On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.