Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
Bernard BaruchRead
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Interpretation
Age is just a number; what matters is the experience gained over time.
In this quote, Bernard Baruch emphasizes that age does not define a person's capabilities or worth. Rather, the experiences and knowledge one accumulates throughout life are invaluable and should be actively utilized. He suggests that applying this experience can lead to achieving greater results with reduced effort and time, highlighting the importance of using one's past learnings in present situations.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth and development.
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. βAt these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from oneβs mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at oneβs leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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