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He was at a
starting point which makes many a man's career a fine
subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to
that amusement who could appreciate the complicated
probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible
thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties
of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point
or else is carried headlong.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
The most
successful career must show a waste of strength that might
have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not
that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has
prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our
national morality is duly silent.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist,
Essayist
Sometimes you
wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you
wonder, ''How will I get off?''
-- Joan Manley
The life-fate
of the modern individual depends not only upon the family
into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but
increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the
most alert hours of his best years.
-- C. Wright Mills
1916-1962, American
Sociologist
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