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perseverance lust curiosity
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
men happiness-and-success foundation
The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
men adjusting faces
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role. Sandra Ford
men mind sides
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. Anna Jameson
men childhood pay
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past. Anita Brookner
past people digital-marketing
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. Clay Shirky
past data make-sense
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past? Clayton Christensen
past leader risk
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.
past illusion ability
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman
past progress get-better
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
past ideas ease
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
past intuition
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.