If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and descri...ption of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them.... A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores publi...c opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for c...ause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in daylight: To be ambitious is to fall in love... With a particular life you haven't got And (since love picks your opposite) won't achieve. That's clear as day. But come back late at night, You'll hear a curious counter-whispering: Success, it says, you've scored a great success. Your wish has flowered, you've dodged the dirty feeding....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To give pleasure to a few wretched souls; the knowledge that human nature craves the good things of life, in terms of nourishment,... and needs beauty in form and color, as its companion; utilization of imagination and a long-suppressed love of the beautiful to conquer a difficult decorative problem; abiding faith that in all life two things alone are necessary, love and beauty, and that in business as well as elsewhere they are essential to a true success, and, adopted as a business principle will lead to success--these were the foundation stones on which this business, the result of twenty years of hard labor, was laid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather than... achievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »