#others

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#american tradition #around #hold #just #native

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#gives #his #lay #man #more

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#achievements #asking #envisaged #had #him

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#day #every #every day #factory #families

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#because #bothers #century #end #how

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#faster #general #horses #know #omit

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#competing #concern #create #criticizing #defeat

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. ↗

— Xun Zi

#generous #gentleman #instruct #magnanimous #opens