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We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

– From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)Rate it:

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.  I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

– Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.Rate it:

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

– Gaius PetroniusRate it:

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

– Dejan StojanovicRate it:

We treat love as possession. But in reality, no one can own another individual.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

– Mary Kay AshRate it:

We try so hard to create God in our image, instead of accepting the reality, that God is everything.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

We try to apply the academic rigor in finance to the practical application of managing money within our strategies.

– David A MascioRate it:

We try to escape as far away only to discover we've been returning all along

– J. R. R. TolkienRate it:

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

– Emily DickinsonRate it:

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

– OvidRate it:

We typically think we’re going to find the perfect mate who’s going to solve all our problems and make our life perfect and that is just unrealistic. We fall in love with human beings, and human being have cracks and we actually love people for their vulnerability.

– Paul HokemeyerRate it:

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

– Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal StalRate it:

We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent.

– Ellen DeGeneresRate it:

We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%.

– Ellen DeGeneresRate it:

We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves.

– Michel DuplainRate it:

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

– Leonard CohenRate it:

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

– Sir Arthur EddingtonRate it:

We usually see things by eye... and feel the rest by imagination, illusion or instinct.

– Clifford Villanueva VillalonRate it:

We usually see things by eye... and feel the rest by imagination, illusion or instinct.

– Clifford Villanueva VillalonRate it:

We wake up, breathe, live life often against our wishes and our better judgement. We console ourselves by telling ourselves this is no fault of our own but that doesn’t take away the reality of the pain, the streaming dreams, the utter shock of life, the shattered pieces of survival.

– Scott C. HolstadRate it:

We wake up, breathe, live life, often against our wishes and our better judgement. We console ourselves by telling ourselves this is no fault of our own but that doesn’t take away the reality of the pain, the streaming dreams, the utter shock of life, the shattered pieces of survival.

– Scott C. HolstadRate it:

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

– Dora RussellRate it:

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