James Mansfield Quotes

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

James Mansfield

• May

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• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Heart
  • May
  • Broken

• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Gifts

• Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Now

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • May
  • Success
  • Poetry

• It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • May
  • Effort
  • Moral

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Judge

• People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Work
  • Language

• You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Brain

• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Rock
  • Perseverance

• The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Work
  • Why
  • Question

• Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

  

  James Mansfield
  • May