I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.


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WILL ROGERS
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS
The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS
If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
WILL ROGERS
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
WILL ROGERS
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
WILL ROGERS
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS
All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS
America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
JAMES ROGERS
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS
Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS
There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS
The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, i...
CARL ROGERS
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of ...
CARL ROGERS
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
CARL ROGERS
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change
CARL ROGERS
In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this ...
CARL ROGERS
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion ...
CARL ROGERS
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
CARL ROGERS
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL ROGERS
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS