Stanislaw Baranski > Stanislaw's Quotes

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

“Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom.”
― Will Durant

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”
― Pablo Picasso

“If a project correspond to your vision, but you are learning nothing new, look for somebody else to do it for you”
― Mikael Krogerus, The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking

“Tak ucz ludzi, jak byś nie uczył ich wcale.
Lecz przypominał rzeczy znane im doskonale.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Tym, Czego człowiek naprawdę potrzebuje, nie jest stan wewnętrznej równowagi, lecz raczej wewnętrzna walka, dążenie do osiągnięcia wartościowego dlań celu czy realizacji swobodnie wybranego zadania. Tym, czego potrzebuje, nie jest rozładowywanie za wszelką cenę wewnętrznych napięć, lecz wezwanie do wypełnienia potencjalnego sensu. Tym, czego mu trzeba, nie jest homeostaza, lecz to, co ja sam nazywam noodynamiką, a mianowicie egzystencjalna dynamika dwubiegunowego pola napięć, gdzie jeden biegun to oczekujący na wypełnienie sens, a drugi to mający go wypełnić człowiek.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!”
― Bruce Lee

“It is unit tests that keep our code flexible, maintainable, and reusable. The reason is simple. If you have tests, you do not fear making changes to the code! Without tests every change is a possible bug.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“The most important skill is to pass your skills on other people”
― Tai Lopez, 67 Steps Program

“There are 3 types of people:
First makes things happen
Second watches things happen
Third wonder what happen”
― Tai Lopez, 67 Steps Program

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You only learn from mistakes, that's the law of nature, but there is no rule that they have to be yours”
― Tai Lopez, 67 Steps Program

“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

“You can get anything from life, but not everything”
― Tai Lopez, 67 Steps Program

“Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Nie ma powodu litować się nad starymi ludźmi. Przeciwnie, młodzi powinni im raczej zazdrościć. To prawda, że na starych nie czekają już nowe możliwości i szansę. Mają jednak coś więcej — miejsce przyszłych możliwości zajęły rzeczywistości w przeszłości — Wykorzystane szansę, wypełnione sensy, zrealizowane wartości, i nikt oraz nic nie zdoła odebrać im zgromadzonych w przeszłości skarbów.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning