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Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #better #business #commands #desire

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#business #made #out #profession

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#best #childlike #i #i think #lose

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. ↗

— Richard Branson

#being #business #essentials #focusing #ideas

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. ↗

— Tim Bray

#bit #dollars #either #enterprise #i

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. ↗

— Franz Boas

#been #case #deviate #every #exceeding

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. ↗

— Franz Boas

#consciously #know #life #nevertheless #private

I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future. ↗

— John Edward

#anybody #before #believe #certain #certain degree

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. ↗

— Dewitt Bodeen

#cling #consciousness #continues #depressions #does