We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultiva...te these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas th...e workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come i...nto a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranki...ng among the achievements of the human mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for th...e right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one indiv...idual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies. We don't have to be little mini-men and try to ...be masculine and use obscene language to come across. I can take you and flip you on the floor and put your arms behind your back and you'll never move again, without your ever knowing that I can do it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a C...ommunist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »