"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
― Robert Shea
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Nature
More From Robert Shea
- "Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action."
- "One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."
- "The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."
More In Nature
- "The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."― William James
- "Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."― Ansel Adams
- "The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."― Quintilian