“To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.” PeopleUseCan DoPathStonesAngryFoolishResolveWisestIndignant Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.” HumansDoeCharacterFeelingsLostChanceEmotionPathSeaFineTypeNormalFruitDeedsPracticalsResolveResolutionDreamerConcreteSensibilityManlyHinderDischarge Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.” ThinkingMenMadeUseEyePathRichEffectsJudgmentProfitEvery ManObligationSuperiorsProportionResolveSubmitSchemesNeighbourDiligenceGreat ChangeBecome RichDexterity Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets
“We spent a fair amount of time on Ukraine. And I think there's a path that we discussed that we will follow up on in order to try to resolve some of the outstanding issues in order to fully implement Minsk.” ThinkingTryingOrderPathIssuesAmountFairsResolveOutstandingUkraineFollow Up Author:John F. Kerry