- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom Quotes
On wisdom gained through age and patience.
One quote here frames aging itself as a kind of accumulation - experience and wisdom worn like notches, alongside real comfort in one's own skin. Related reading: Experience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
- Being Prepared
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.
- Resume
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020