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"A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the
sea"
a Dutch Proverb
"Add little to little and there will be a big
pile"
Ovid
"He'll sit here and he'll say, "Do
this!" And nothing will happen"
Harry S. Truman, on Presidential Power
"Practice is the best of all instructors"
Pubilius
"There is nothing in this world constant but
inconstancy"
Swift
"It is common sense to take a method and try
it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A good workman is known by his tools"
proverb
"It is better to know some of the questions
than all of the answers"
James Thurber
"Only the mediocre are always at their
best"
Jean Giraudoux
"The reverse side also has a reverse
side"
Japanese Proverb
"You might as well fall flat on your face as
lean over too far backward"
James Thurber
"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated
curriculum"
Menander
"The man who doesn't read good books has no
advantage over the man who can't read them"
Mark Twain
"The mistakes are all there waiting to be
made"
Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
"I was gratified to be able to answer
promptly. I said I don't know"
Mark Twain
McCabe's law: Nobody has to do anything,
Charles McCabe
"In many ways the saying "Know
thyself" is lacking. Better to know other people"
Menander
"It takes a great man to make a good
listener"
Arthur Helps
"The doctor can bury his mistakes but an
architect can only advise his client to plant vines"
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Virtue is its own revenge"
E.Y. Harburg
"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds
demand"
unknown
"Nature has given us two ears but only one
mouth"
Benjamin Disraeli
"The future isn't what it used to be"
Variously ascribed
"They say you can't do it, but sometimes it
doesn't always work"
Casey Stengel
"Logic is in the eye of the logician"
Gloria Steinem
"Everything is in a state of flux, including
the status quo"
Robert Byrne
"We don't know a millionth of one percent
about anything"
Thomas Alva Edison
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he
doesn't want to hear"
Dick Cavett
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the
ark"
Howard Ruff
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will
be fired with enthusiasm"
Vince Lombardi
"Victory goes to the player who makes the
next-to-last mistake"
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want
everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs"
Samuel Goldwyn
"The advantage of emotions is that they lead
us astray"
Oscar Wilde
"A man is known by the company he avoids"
unknown
"Tradition is what you resort to when you
don't have the time or the money to do it right"
Kurt Herbert Adler
"I will always cherish the initial
misconceptions I had about you"
unknown
"After all is said and done, more is said than
done"
unknown
"A professional is someone who does his best
work even when he doesn't feel like it"
unknown
"Faith is believing what you know ain't
so"
a schoolboy quoted by Mark Twain
"It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help"
Judith Martin (Miss Manners)
"If you think education is expensive, try
ignorance"
Derek Bok
"The graveyards are full of indispensable
men"
Charles de Gaulle
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told
the truth and they thought it was hell"
Harry S. Truman
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the
same mistakes, only sooner"
Tallulah Bankhead
"If you tell the truth you don't have to
remember anything"
Mark Twain
"The more he talked of his honor the faster we
counted our spoons"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get
run over if you just sit there"
Will Rogers
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing"
George Bernard Shaw
"Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they
are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular"
Lady Marguerite Blessington
"Remember that a kick in the ass is a step
forward"
unknown
"Computers are useless. They can only give you
answers"
Pablo Picasso
"A good man is always a beginner"
Martial
"We are what we pretend to be"
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"You are no bigger than the things that annoy
you"
Jerry Bundsen
"The purpose of life is a life of
purpose"
Robert Byrne
"I am not young enough to know
everything"
Oscar Wilde
"Yesterday is done and tomorrow is yet to
come"
The Eurythmics
"We will be successful under conditions
as we find them"
"Foots" Clements
"The fault
usually lies with the one weak enough to lay blame"
Stephen King
"Inexperience
is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible."
Herbert V. Prochnow
"Sometimes
when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things...
I
am tempted to think there are no little things"
Bruce Barton (as quoted by Stephen Covey in
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Simon & Schuster Inc.")
"We are
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
Aristotle (as quoted by Stephen Covey in
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Simon & Schuster Inc.")
"What lies
behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"
Oliver Wendell Holmes (as quoted by Stephen Covey in
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Simon & Schuster Inc.")
"I want to
know God's thoughts...the rest are details"
Albert Einstein
"The
greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the
soul."
David O. McKay (as quoted by Stephen Covey in
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Simon & Schuster Inc.")
"The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we
were at when we created them"
Albert Einstein
"If you don't
have anything to do, don't do it here"
Eugene Orozco
"Shut up, you're
too stupid to talk right now"
Bruce Simmons
"The art of being
wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James
"The devil
is in the details; if you don't look at the details, you don't ever see the
devil!"
Glenn Dimit
"When your work
speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
Unknown but contributed by Jocelyn Feldman
"Getting fired is
nature's way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place."
Unknown but contributed by Jocelyn Feldman
"Hard work
spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up
their noses and some don't turn up at all."
Unknown but contributed by Jocelyn Feldman
"It is difficult
to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and
the reality of tomorrow."
Robert Goddard, contributed by Jocelyn Feldman
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