A Quote by Walter Bagehot

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot
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February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Jordan Peterson

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Kin Hubbard

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

Sanford I. Weill

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

Federico Fellini

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

Stephen J. Cannell

The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.

Eugene Schwartz

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Joseph Addison

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

Leigh Hunt

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

Kurt Vonnegut

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite a lot of the differences that make us rich and poor are matters just of luck. To somehow revel in one?s privilege would be a mistake. An even bigger mistake would be trying to convert that into a theory that the rich are so much more productive than many of us.

Amartya Sen

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Stella Adler

I made the mistake of being too agreeable and catering to every need of my man.

Reham Khan

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Walter Bagehot

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Winston Churchill

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