Quotes
Quotes about Nation
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.
Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
