What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily we do our eyes. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Face, Wise You May Also Like We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. By Marian Wright Edelman Advice, Perseverance, Success, Thoughtful, Wise The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. By Mark Twain Optimist, Pessimist, Wise Too clever is dumb. By Odgen Nash Attitude, Clever, Wise Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There’s no time for pettiness. By Margaretta (Floppy) Rockefeller Health, Life, Priorities, Wisdom, Wise To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. By Stendhal Face, Facial expressions What is absent from the data should be taken into account—absence of Black Swans in the record doesn’t mean these were not there. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Black swan, Business, Data, Entrepreneurs, Wise You May Also Like from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg l am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than Heaven does. By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Death, Grief, Mourning, Sad What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we do our eyes. By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Listening, Silence Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Bad day, Genius, Inspirational, Positive
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. By Marian Wright Edelman Advice, Perseverance, Success, Thoughtful, Wise
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. By Mark Twain Optimist, Pessimist, Wise
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There’s no time for pettiness. By Margaretta (Floppy) Rockefeller Health, Life, Priorities, Wisdom, Wise
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. By Stendhal Face, Facial expressions
What is absent from the data should be taken into account—absence of Black Swans in the record doesn’t mean these were not there. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Black swan, Business, Data, Entrepreneurs, Wise
l am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than Heaven does. By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Death, Grief, Mourning, Sad
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we do our eyes. By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Listening, Silence
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Bad day, Genius, Inspirational, Positive
