Quotes by Circles When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists. Walter A. Davis circlesbelieffaith How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding. Warren Farrell royal-weddingcircleshome Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle. Warren Buffett circlesdifferentimportant The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension. Wassily Kandinsky circlesthreesynthesis The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo. Wassily Kandinsky impactcirclespowerful What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital. Warren Buffett circlesimportantknowing For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone. Wayne Muller circlesfireyears If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter. Warren Buffett competencewellscircles We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other's arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments. Wendell Berry circleshandsmoving The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. Warren Buffett circlestermimportant I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. Wendell Berry circlestreewater France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. Wilfred Burchett demandcirclesears No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist. Wilhelm Keitel circlesmatterfeelings President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles. Will Durst circlesrunningthinking In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you. Will Ferrell that-one-personcircleshate So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. Will Durant circlesrunningmen The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle? William A. Dembski guarantees-thatcirclespeople If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do. William Blake circlesifs If you have form'd a circle to go into, William Blake circlessoldierwar Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle. William Graham Sumner circlescitizensmen«5051525354555657585960»
