The beauty of ’spacing’ children
“The beauty of ’spacing’ children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.” Sydney J. Harris
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“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.” Sydney J. Harris
“As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood — and an almost total inability to practice it.” Sydney J. Harris
If you’re not part of the solution
“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.” Sydney J. Harris
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” Warren G. Bennis
The three hardest tasks in the
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” Sydney J. Harris
