Charles Kettering - "Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
Horace Walpole - "Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
Michael Jordan - "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
Rene Descartes - "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
Jules Renard - "It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
One man's roof is another man's floor.
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement thatsomething else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
And all your money won’t another minute buy. – Kansas, 1977, “Dust In The Wind”
Horace Walpole – “Life is a comedy for those who think… and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Tom Brokaw – “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
You know a product is uncommonly designed when each of its successors looks and functions pretty much like the original –Michael Brown
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. – Winston Churchill
Luc de Clapier – “Patience is the art of hoping.”
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. –Anon
Inside every 70-year old there’s a 35-year old asking, ‘what happened?’” Anon
“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs nothing.” John Tillotson, English prelate (1630 – 1694)
Here’s the problem with copying: Copying skips understanding. Understanding is how you grow. You have to understand why something works or why something is how it is. When you copy it, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath. –Jason (37 Signals)
One man’s roof is another man’s floor. –Anon
Margaret Thatcher – “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
Bill Cosby – “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it’s OK. It’s when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.” Bonnie Hunt
“The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” –Harry S Truman
Malcolm Forbes – “Failure is success if we learn from it.”
Aesop – “After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Socrates – “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Sallust – “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
I used to dream my best thoughts and now it seems they come to me in the shower. –Steve Wozniak 2009.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. –Warren Buffet
Frederick Douglass – “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Charles Darwin – “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
Antonio Porchia – “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. –Anon
James M. Barrie – “Life is a long lesson in humility.”
Dalai Lama – “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
An exceptional home is simply a frame for a exceptional life. –Sotheby’s International Realty
People think entrepreneurs are risk-loving. Really what you find is successful entrepreneurs hate risk, because the founding of the enterprise is already so risky that what they do is take their early resources, the small amounts of capital that they have, whatever assets they have, and they deploy those resources systematically, eliminating the largest risk first, the second-largest risk, and so on, and so on.
—Jeff Bezos
Sex and Golf are the only things you don’t have to be good to enjoy.”
Edward de Bono – “Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
Robert Half – “Not admiring a mistake is a bigger mistake.”
Marie Curie – “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Stewart Udall – “We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
Dick Armey – “You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.”
Carol Burnett – “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."
William Christopher Handy – “Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.”
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. -David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
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David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
Richard Schickel – “Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.”
Erma Bombeck – “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
Women are either at your feet or at your throat. –Winston Churchill
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” – E. Joseph Cossman
Confucius – “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
Frank Lloyd Wright – “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt – “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
Calvin Coolidge – “It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
R. Buckminster Fuller – “I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
You live two lives. One where you learn, and one where you live. –The Natural
Michelangelo – “Genius is eternal patience.”
Peter Drucker – “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
You can’t push on a string –Barney Frank
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” –C. Ten Boom
It’s not about the bike.’ – Lance Armstrong
Without challenge there is no achievement.
Nelson Mandela – “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
Michael Korda – “The more you can dream, the more you can do.”
Mia Hamm – “Success breeds success.”
Who Dares, Wins.–Jim Snyder
Hey everybody, let’s have some fun
You only live for once
And when you’re dead you’re done
So let the good times roll, let the good times roll
And live a long long
I don’t care if you are young or old no no,
get together and let the good times roll
–B.B. King
“Only time will tell if it was time well spent” -Jimmy Buffett
Marie Curie – “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold H. Glasow
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. –Arnold H. Glasow
All some folks want is their fair share and yours. –Arnold H. Glasow
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. –Arnold H. Glasow
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. –Arnold H. Glasow
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. –Arnold H. Glasow
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. –Arnold H. Glasow
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. –Arnold H. Glasow
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. –Arnold H. Glasow
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. –Arnold H. Glasow
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. –Arnold H. Glasow
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow
Arnold H. Glasow – “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
B. F. Skinner – “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” –Corita Kent
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Ben Sweetland – “Success is a journey, not a destination.”
Henry Ward Beecher – “Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
William Hazlitt – “Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
Walt Whitman – “When I give, I give myself.”
Eric Hoffer – “We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
“What I loved so much was the girls I went out with,” Curtis recalls, his Bronx upbringing still rumbling through his voice. “Whether they were major movie players or cocktail waitresses, I just loved them. Something about women has always intrigued me since I was a kid. They have more courage than us guys, and I have always appreciated that.”–Tony Curtis (age 83)
Saint Augustine – “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. -Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. -Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.-Albert Einstein
If A = success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X = work. Y = play. Z= keep your mouth shut.-Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. -Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. -Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. -Albert Einstein
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -Albert Einstein
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. -Richard Nixon
Sometimes life hits you on the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. [Steve Jobs, 2005]
Lord Chesterfield – “You must look into people as well as at them.”
Samuel Goldwyn – “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
It is said the warrior’s is the two fold Way of the pen and sword, and he should have a taste both ways. –Greg Prim
There ain’t no rules here. I am just trying to accomplish something. –Thomas Edison
You waste half of your advertisement budget, you just don’t know which half. –Jason Fried
“I wanna have the same last dream again, the one where I wake up and I’m alive.” (Angels and Airwaves).
