“I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.” EnoughProblemSoundWiseTasksNotionLeavingBusyAttractiveLazyLapDelegatesDelegation Author:John Ortberg
“Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.” HeartSoundBrainMusicWiseSweetMy HeartCapacityDelightOrganizedCharmRaptureHeart And BrainSweet Music Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.” MenSaidSoundWiseWonderfulHeardSpeechPhilosopherArguingTrumpets Author:Plutarch
“Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.” PeopleSometimesMomentsHappensSoundStudyWiseStreetsHearingIntensePerceive Author:C.P. Cavafy
“This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.” CharacterFilmSoundCommonWiseAdviceTradition Author:Omar Sharif
“Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness of the state, hostile to the march of the mind of man, and contrary to sound morality, from which the interests of state policy can never be separated.” MenMindPersonsStatesSeemsFeltSoundInterestMoralWiseAtheismPolicyCitizensMoralityPositive AtheismContraryRidiculousIndifferenceMarchHostileInclinationDisadvantagesDespised Author:Baron d'Holbach
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.” MenSoundWonderTeachWiseJourneyCommunicateSparesFoolishnessImpartSiddhartha Author:Marcel Proust
“A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies.” MomentsDiesSoundVirtueWiseGenerousCrownsTowersSovereignRoyaltyValiantEmblems Author:Jonathan Swift
“Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.” MenDoeSufferingSpeakSoundTalkingWiseMouthsRejoice Author:Oliver Cromwell
“The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.” SoundImaginationWiseSixGuitarIncrediblesRangeGutsStringsHendrix Author:Jimmy Page
“If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.” IfsKnowsMenChoicesGivenSoundLibertyWiseHonestSecurityJudgmentLatterContemptScornFree ManHonest ManSound Judgment Author:James Farley
“First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.” IfsFirstsEndsWisdomSoundWiseDependsSafeInjusticeAffrontSafe And Sound Book:The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ... Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...
“Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.” IfsWisdomDesireFoundSoundWiseMysteryFringe Book:The Daodejing of Laozi Source: The Daodejing of Laozi