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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. and it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

His long trancelike silences had the effect of forcing others to talk. One of the most important lessons about managing people was that most people will solve their own problems and give you a solution if you only listen to them, if you keep them talking long enough.

If it's not worth doing, be sure not to do it. Resources devoted to one activity are taken away from another activity. Everything spent on something not worth doing could be spent on something useful. Things not worth doing take on a life of their own. After a while, people will say “we ought not to let this die.” But the activity should never have begun in the first place.