We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.
Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.
Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.
I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of the sudden the rest of the drug dealers are going to go "Uh oh!" Watch how fast the drug problem disappears. If you use drugs, you're addicted and you steal something, you'll get sent off to the outback and to work camps and all of the sudden no drug addicts. See how simple that is? So simple.
I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.
I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.