Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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Related Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ROBERT G. MENZIES Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ROBERT MENZIES It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow. It is to aspire to ... NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary THOMAS PAINE When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. THOMAS PAINE Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach
posterity are not much more numero... BENJAMIN DISRAELI How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th... MARCUS AURELIUS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very wil... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We need feminism because degrading phrases like "walk of shame" are commonplace in our social vocabu... MIYA YAMANOUCHI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will n... EDMUND BURKE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors. EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors EDMUND BURKE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on prob... THOMAS à KEMPIS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly w... AVA DUVERNAY O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ... OSCAR WILDE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has t... JOS The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has t... JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well. STACY SCHIFF Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generati... JOSEPH ADDISON Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered down from generat... JOSEPH ADDISON Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The cap... H. L. WAYLAND Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, se... MICHAEL ENDE Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for
posterity; for what has posterity don... SIR BOYLE ROCHE I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderne... JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. RICHIE NORTON Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immens... WALT WHITMAN To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever... BOYLE ROCHE People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you... IGOR ELISEEV when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is com... DONALD MCCAIG May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of ... RICHARD L. EVANS A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does... SAMUEL BUTLER To be or not to be that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW ...the glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any... POLYBIUS The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. ... MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
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