Thucydides Quotes

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Thucydides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 460 BC - 395 BC

Topics

MenToo MuchBrilliantExpectCharge

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

John C. Maxwell

DisciplinePainPeopleWantPainful

President Obama helped move this country forward.

Tony Cardenas

ForwardCountryPresidentMoveObama

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

Roger Goodell

PrivilegeRightEveryoneStandards

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

Marvin Olasky

WomenBeautifulAngryFaceMeetings

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

Michael Porter

PeopleChoicesStrategyYouThings

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Mo Ibrahim

PositiveExpansionUpAgainstMarket

It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.

Jared Polis

CommunityGreatGrowUnderstanding

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Jose Saramago

LanguageMakingNeedsUseTinyPart

Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes will take in more information about the slope. Sometimes you'll find that your initial read was incorrect.

Jordan Spieth

EyesYouInformationLookFindWill

I love being at home and creating in the kitchen.

Chrissy Teigen

LoveHomeKitchenCreatingBeing

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

Chris Squire

PeopleDoneLittleBassFurtherFew

If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.

Claire Messud

ChallengeImpossibleInterestingYou

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