Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
BILL VAUGHANOur lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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