You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
Interpretation
Honesty is crucial for authentic living and avoiding self-betrayal.
This quote emphasizes the importance of speaking one's mind and being honest about one's thoughts. It suggests that failing to communicate truthfully not only affects personal integrity but also leads to a betrayal of one's own life and values.
In practice
During a team meeting, to encourage openness, you might say this quote to emphasize the importance of sharing honest feedback.
If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
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