It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage ..."There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, more... than any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that a...dage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The elements of success in this business do not differ from the elements of success in any other. Competition is keen and bitter. ...Advertising is as large an element as in any other business, and since the usual avenues of successful exploitation are closed to the profession, the adage that the best advertisement is a pleased customer is doubly true for this business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,... And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' th' adage?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviou...sly, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »