“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.” MenWellsEnergyAbilityPleasureResultsCreativeGreaterHe ManGeniusHabitEqualDiseaseCapacityCleanInstanceFormerUselessLatterEnduranceEvidentAgilityBeing EqualCreative Energy Author:Christian D. Larson
“There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.” WorldTwoMovingFaithForceFearConsciousnessForeverGreaterThis WorldInstancePrimariesAccomplishmentSicknessDestructivenessFear And Faith Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.” IfsHardWould BeEvilEffortPovertyGreaterDirectMiseryVicesInstanceAssault Author:William Graham Sumner
“The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.” MenArtDifferentCountryAmericaOpinionGreaterHonestPoliticianArt IsConscienceEnglandDemocraticTechniqueInstanceNervesStrainScandalPublic OpinionHonest ManDisdainKnavesDifferent CountriesVirtuosity Author:George Bernard Shaw
“The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...” NeedsHandsPurposeDifferencesGreaterEffectsMachinesIntelligentPressesAccomplishInstanceEnginesBeamWorkmenGreater Power Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.” HumansMayOrderFoundUnderstandingSidesNumbersOpinionSupportGreaterAuthorityDrawsAll ThingsWeightAgreeConclusionInstanceFormerDistinctionRejectsNeglectDespiseAdoptedPernicious Book:The Works of Francis Bacon Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
“I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.” WantI CanMightAbleGreaterRiskElementsMusicalSakeVideoInstanceIngredientsMinimalist Author:Jonathan Glazer