A woman once visited Henri Matisse in his studio and, after examining a painting he had just finished, declared to him, “The arm of this woman is much too long.” His reply was quick. “But, madame, you are mistaken. This is not a woman, this is a painting."
  Ellen langer

 A tourist in New York's Greenwich Village decided to have his portrait sketched by a sidewalk artist. He received a very fine sketch, for which he was charged $100. "That's expensive," he said to the artist, "but I'll pay it, because it is a great sketch. But, really, it took you only five minutes." "Twenty years and five minutes," the artist said.
  Thomas Sowell

 "I didn't see the need to do things that didn't need to be done. Sometimes matters just resolve themselves if you leave them alone long enough... Public administrators would get along better if they would restrain the impulse to butt in, or to be dragged into trouble. They should remain silent until an issue is reduced to its lowest terms, until it boils down into something like a moral issue. When you see ten troubles rolling down the road, if you don't do anything, nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you. Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still. When things are going all right, it is a good plan to let them alone."
  Calvin Coolidge

 "I was at the Gate of Paradise with a crowd of people who wanted to enter. And St. Peter asked each of them which religion he belonged to. One answered 'I am a Roman Catholic." 'Very well,' said St. Peter; 'come in, and take your place over there among the Catholics.' Another said he belonged to the Anglican Church. 'Very well,' said St. Peter; 'come in and take your place over there among the Anglicans.' Another said he was a Quaker. 'Very well, said St. Peter; 'come in and take your place among the Quakers.' Finally, he asked me what my religion was. 'Alas!' I replied, 'unfortunately, I belong to none at all.' 'That's a pity,' said the Saint. 'But enter anyway and take any place you wish.'"
  Benjamin Franklin

 "A crab said to her son, "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab replied: "Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it." The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.

Example is more powerful than precept."
  Aesop

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
  Ludwig Wittgenstein

 


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