“Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.”
“In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.”
Scott Ferrell (August 30, 2002) "Smith has record in sight", The Times, p. 21G.
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.”
"Ideals of Stanford", by President David Starr Jordan, in The Land of Sunshine: A Southern California Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Los Angeles, June 1898), p. 11
Variant: "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it."
“We can't do a list of 20 things. You can't do 20 things in parallel. Do one of them. Do the next.”
The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science
“If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.”
#19822, Part 199
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
Source: Unsinkable : A Memoir (2013), Chapter 16. Bottoming Out in Beverley Hills
As quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175
Talk to schoolchildren in Oyster Bay, Christmastime (1898), as quoted in The Bully Pulpit : A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations (2002) by H. Paul Jeffers, p. 22
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