Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:
“Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds; for to say, under such circumstances, Do not decide, but leave the question open, is itself a passional decisionjust like deciding yes or noand is attended with the same risk of losing the truth.”
—William James (18421910)
“Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didnt learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?”
—Storm Jameson (18911986)
“We do not count a mans years until he has nothing else to count.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)