20 quotes
"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"
- Sydney J. Harris
Awareness
"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’"
- Sydney J. Harris
Awareness
""When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'""
- Sydney J. Harris
Awareness
"The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
- Sydney J. Harris
Awareness
"The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
- Sydney J. Harris
Awareness
"Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists."
- Sydney J. Harris
Awareness
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
- Sydney J. Harris
Self-awareness
"The real self is not something one finds as much as it is something one makes."
- Sydney J. Harris
Self-awareness
"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
- Sydney J. Harris
Happiness
"Happiness is a direction, not a place"
- Sydney J. Harris
Happiness
"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'”"
- Sydney J. Harris
Motivation
"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
- Sydney J. Harris
Leadership
"A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive."
- Sydney J. Harris
Forgiveness
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
- Sydney J. Harris
Change
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
- Sydney J. Harris
Reflection
"The time to relax is when you have no time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
Time Management
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
- Sydney J. Harris
Education
"Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."
- Sydney J. Harris
Education
"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
Mindfulness
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
Self-care