#than

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. ↗

— Harold Acton

#autobiographies #best #biographies #decades #fiction

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. ↗

— John Adair

#chief #chief executive #effective #executive #far

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. ↗

— Aeschylus

#hate #i #i have learned #learned #more

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. ↗

— Howard Baker

#always #causes #cover-up #event #rather

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead. ↗

— Aeschylus

#living #me #mourn #rather #than

After all is said and done, more is said than done. ↗

— Aesop

#done #more #said #than

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ↗

— Aesop

#anxiety #banquet #better #crust #eaten

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ↗

— Aesop

#better #misfortunes #others #own #than

Persuasion is often more effectual than force. ↗

— Aesop

#force #more #often #persuasion #than

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#basically #before #december #everybody #fired