“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Extracts From Adam's Diary (1906)
Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE
“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Extracts From Adam's Diary (1906)
Dana Gioia (1950) American writer
Commencement speech, Stanford University (2007-06-17)
Speeches and lectures
Antonio Moreno (1887–1967) Spanish-American film actor and director
Other rewards do not count, comparatively. The joy of leisure is an illusion. The chief reason for my liking serials for as long as I did was because they kept me constantly at work, whereas feature pictures do permit of a week or more idleness in between. <br class="br"> The True Story of My Life http://www.public.asu.edu/~bruce/Taylor57.txt (November 8 - December 13, 1924)
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
As quoted in The Lost Art of General Management (2004) by Rob Waite, p. 96
Context: Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
Clayton M. Christensen (1952–2020) Mormon academic
Christensen (2011) in: Harvard Business Review (2011) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. p. 4
2010s
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Stan Lee (1922–2018) American comic book writer
cyberspacers.com http://www.cyberspacers.com/exclusive/08020302.html
Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist
11 July 1942, p. 484-85
Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Time Management (2007)