“The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“The deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important"”
John Dewey
“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life”
Albert Einstein
“It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.”
William Osler
“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
“Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.”
Walter Lippmann
“The Yankees have never addressed or spoken with me in regard to any off-field activities regarding Alex Rodriguez. And the Yankees have never spoken to Alex regarding any of his off-field activities,”
Scott Boras