"Watch people do their most common actions;..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
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“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
“Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.”
“The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.”
More on Character
“Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.”
“The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.”
“I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.”
More on Observation
“Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.”
“The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.”
“The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”