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Nuggets of Wisdom – Fall 2022

Nuggets of Wisdom – Fall 2022

Last updated on: October 5, 2022 at 11:54 am by Richard E. Simmons III

Nuggets of Wisdom – Fall 2022 2022-10-05T11:54:25-06:00 Richard E. Simmons III

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Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and research that have been meaningful to me. I call them “Nuggets of Wisdom.”

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“If our only main contact with people is electronic, then we can’t have real feelings. We can’t know each other . . . We may get a vast knowledge of what’s going on, but at the price of isolating people.”

—DR. HARRY LEVINSON

“The more time people spend in Facebook, the happier they perceive their friends to be and the sadder they feel as a consequence.”

—INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

You can tell how strong you are by what it takes to discourage you.

—BOB GASS

Comparison is the thief of joy.

—THEODORE ROOSEVELT

“The Statue of Liberty on the East Coast should be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”

—VICTOR FRANKL

“Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don’t even have that.”

—DENNIS PRAGER

“The most important things in life are almost never urgent. That’s why it’s essential that we schedule them.”

—MATHEW KELLY

“The day you fall in love with learning, your life changes forever.”

—MATHEW KELLY

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”

—C.S. LEWIS

“Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet.”

—SAINT AUGUSTINE

“If men will not chain their own appetites they forge the chains with which something will chain them because they are no longer in control of their own lives.”

—EDMUND BURKE

Richard E Simmons III is the founder and Executive Director of The Center for Executive Leadership and a best-selling author.

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