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What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.
Sam Keen

If you can't describe what you're doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
E. Edwards Deming

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller

 

Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
Bruce Lee

 

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
                    Here's the corollary:
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson

 

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be removed.
Samuel Johnson

 

The consequences of a claim that something is true are entirely irrelevant to the issue of whether the claim is true.
Steven Goldberg

 

Truth is incontrovertible.
Panic may resist it,
Ignorance may deride it,
malice may distort it,
but there it is...
Sir Winston Churchill

 

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

 

History will be kind to me
for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill

 

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Churchill


Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm! (I do this all the time!)
Sir Winston Churchill

 

It's an impossible situation,
but it has possibilities.
Sam Goldwyn


You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

 

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

 

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

 

All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860

 

Unless you try to do something beyond
what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn

 

Nothing comes from doing nothing.
Shakespeare

 

My opinions may have changed,
but not the fact that I’m right.
Ashleigh Brilliant

 

Unwritten Law: Most people do almost enough to win.
A.L.Williams

 

The Majority Is Always Wrong
Earl Nightingale

 

If you're willing to do for a year what others won't, you can do for a lifetime what others CAN'T! 
(Unknown)

 

When one door closes, another opens.
Helen Keller

 

There are MORE than two sides to a coin.
The closer you look, the more you'll find.
Robert Binnion ( me! )

 

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering,
are outside my door.
I am in the house, and I have the key.
Charles F. Lummis (1859 - 1928)

 

Better ask ten times than go astray once.
Unknown

He who has to ask questions looks like a fool for a minute; he who does not ask questions remains a fool forever.
from The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics by Nury Vittachi

You can go no further than halfway into a dark forest: from then on you are coming out of the other side.
from The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics by Nury Vittachi

 

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
George Patton

 

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
Betty Bender

 

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats..
Howard Aiken

 

Be kind -
Everyone you meet
is fighting a hard battle.
John Watson

 

Every flower must grow through dirt.
Unknown

 

In the hour of adversity
be not without hope
For crystal rain falls
from black clouds.
Nizami

 

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
John Wayne

 

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

 

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James R. Cook

 

When we fall in love what attracts us most about other people is how different they are from us. Once hitched we tend to change ourselves to accomodate what we think our partner wants of us. So, what starts out as an exciting relationship full of spontaneity and contrast becomes a life of strict rules, making everything seem the same. We wind up dancing to each other's tune.
Stuart Wilde

 

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
Arabic Proverb

 

Whatever happens in life, if it doesn't kill you
it can only make you stronger.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

But Godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6

 

He who is satisfied, is rich.
Lao Tzu

 

When dealing with people, remember you are not
dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

 

The heart has it's reasons
that reason does not know.
Blaise Pascal


To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein

 

For every action, there is an equal and opposite...
...criticism.
Unknown

One win can make up for years of failure.
Unknown

 

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