William Feather Quotes
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
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Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
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In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.
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A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
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We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.
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No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
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Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.
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We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.