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V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown."

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.




V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems."

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action."

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.




V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway."

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life."

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities."

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.




V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board."

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong."

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "If you must doubt something, doubt your limits."

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind."

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart."

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.




V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game."

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Trust is the glue that holds relationships together."

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art."

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10."

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine."

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up."

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it."

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise."

You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results."

In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit."

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society.""

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence."

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate."

If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale."

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature."

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere."

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up."

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive."

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "It's all in the art. You get no credit for living."

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness."

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening."

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism."

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own."

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory."

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do."

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Act as if success is certain."

Act as if success is certain.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want."

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed."

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing."

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise."

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity."

Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline."

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress."

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense."

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women."

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened."

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.



V.S. Pritchett Quotes: "It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me."

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.