The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.
Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
I think naturally I've been kind of a lead-by-doing guy. Just showing up to work every day. You never ask teammates something you wouldn't do yourself.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
I never really had an idol.
India's pluralism is its greatest strength and its greatest example to the world.
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.
Watch what we do, instead of what we say.
Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.
On the court as well as off the court, I'm going to do everything that's right and try to lead by example.
If I can be a role model for kids, then that's fantastic. That's what I want to do.
We need more of those characters that lead by example for people coming up next to us.
