“In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.” WarCertainTalentJudgingDependsDifficultySuperiorsConquerResolutionArrangements Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.” HardIssuesParticularJudgingDependsEasierAuthorityDifficultyImpactSecureBordersSolidarityAdjustmentBenchesTolerableUnanimityDisunity Author:Learned Hand
“Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.” PeopleMenMaySufferingCausesWealthInterestingCommonRichDependsMen And WomenDifficultyTheaterBoredEnjoymentBoredomUnhappinessWealthyIdleEarning Author:Andre Maurois
“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.” ThinkingNeedsShouldHas BeensSaidProcessUnderstandingPracticeStudyPsychologyInformationTheoryDependsBehaviorShould HaveDifficultyChiefsInsultRatsPigeons Author:J. P. Guilford
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” PeopleMenWisdomGovernmentPoliticalReligionEnergyDifficultUnderstandingCommunityEnvironmentSocietyDependsDrugDifficultyClimate ChangeIntelligenceDependentGovernorsDependenceSalaryMiscellaneousInconvenientNever UnderestimateBest InvestmentDrug ProhibitionInconvenient TruthStupidity And IntelligenceLacking Something Author:Upton Sinclair