The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
BENJAMIN JOWETTYou’ve got to be success minded. You’ve got to feel that things are coming your way when you’re out selling; otherwise, you won’t be able to sell anything.
More Benjamin Jowett Quotes
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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.
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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
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Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
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