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"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare" »Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
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"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire." »Robert Frost
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"I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous." »Jasper Johns (lithographer), Newsweek, Oct. 24, 1977 - page 42.
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"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." »James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002
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"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." »James Carroll
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"The success combination in business is Do what you do better...and Do more of what you do..." »David Joseph Schwartz
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"There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate." »John Sloan Dickey
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"My view is that one should not break up a winning combination." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." »Arnold Palmer
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"Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?" »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
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"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." »Napolean Hill
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"I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination." »Frank L. Boyden
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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." »Fawn M. Brodie
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"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." »Maya Angelou
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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." »Anais Nin
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"There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware." »Francis A. Carter
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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." »Nelson Mandela
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"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never." »Edna Ferber
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"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be." »Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901)
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination." »Denis Diderot
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." »Denis Diderot
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"Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended." »Oriana Fallaci
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"What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination." »Warren Bennis
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"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." »John W. Hanley
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