Quote of the Day - [4]

[maxie]

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.


Denis Waitley

 

[Dsprague]

Glib's Fourth Law of Unreliability:
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the
probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting
some useful work done.

 

[A Guy]

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
~Casey Stengel

A Guy

 

[maxie]

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.


Aristotle

 

[koolkat77]

 

[A Guy]

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
~Soren Kierkegaard

A Guy

 

[maxie]

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.


Napoleon Hill

 

[Dsprague]

This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
-- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.

 

[koolkat77]

 

[A Guy]

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Guy

 

[maxie]

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.


Buddha

 

[Dsprague]

The main thing is the play itself. I swear that greed for money has nothing
to do with it, although heaven knows I am sorely in need of money.
-- Feodor Dostoyevsky

 

[koolkat77]

 

[A Guy]

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

A Guy

 

[maxie]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.


Henri Nouwen

 

[A Guy]

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
~Bob Edwards

A Guy

 

[koolkat77]

 

[maxie]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[A Guy]

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
~Philip G. Hamerton

A Guy

 

[ICIT2LOL]

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