For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street s...
By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider the number of humans a New Yorker will pass on ...
I strongly believe that leadership is an art, not a science. I've learned that leadership can be innate or it can be learned. However, I don't believe anyone was truly born to be a great leader. Great leaders are formed over a long period of time thr...
Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it's much more important for another person to discover his or her own gifts and shortcomings--the patient person doesn't feel a need to "fix" other people, and so...
There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him:...
He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood, nor hears the breathing of his adversary, nor reads the fear, courag...
There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one of us. Shukhov squeezes everything he can out of a mouthful of soup or a bite of bread…So frozen that he can’t even...
You need to respect people either good one or bad. Every person in this world have something good and something bad. You need to see the positive side of the person rather than the negative ones. By doing this you can never hate anyone in this world....
The mistakes of the past are valuable lessons for the future.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.
Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.
I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
