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Who you are today is a product of what you did yesterday. Who you are tomorrow is a product of what you did today...make every second count!
- Christie Jean-Baptiste
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George Patton
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents
, 1899
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
- Douglas Adams
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
- Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
- Sir Robert Baden-Powell
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
- Groucho Marx
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
- Maria Montessori
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
- Virginia Woolfe
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
- Russell H. Ewing
Leadership must be established from the top down.
- Sam Nunn
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- Cecil B. DeMille
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Goethe
I had a dream... and there were 1's and 0's everywhere, and I think I saw a 2!
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
- Linus Torvalds
A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, Would rather be the one experiencing the pain, Than to have to watch their friend suffer.
- Amanda Gier
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!
- Thomas Jefferson
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents
, 1899
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams
He who stops being better stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (written by Eliot appearing in a book of poems by Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus, Black Sun Press, Paris: 1931)
- T.S. Eliot
Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.
- Scottish proverb
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
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