Quotation Collection

Who dares nothing need hope for nothing. Friedrich von Schiller

• risk
• chance

Passionate people who fail don't get a chance to offer their advice to the rest of us. Scott Adams

• enthusiasm
• advice
• passion

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Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Solutions that broadly work well (e.g., how people should contact each other in the event of crises) are generally better than highly specialized solutions (e.g., how each person should contact each other in the event of every conceivable crisis), especially in the early stages of a plan. There generally isn't much gained by lots of detail relative to a good broad solution. Ray Dalio

• perfection

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The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reforms which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Calvin Coolidge

• religion
• government