"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
- Winston Churchill
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
- Albert Einstein
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
-Michel de Montaigne
"We're here to talk about solutions".
- Yoram Gold, kicking off a contentious meeting.
"Simple minds discuss people. Good minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas."
- Hyman Rickover
"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby
"Never complain; never explain."
- Jack Welch (GE CEO)
"The heat's in the tool"
- Ironworker (Mike Herzog's story)
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
- Thomas Paine
"Learn to make decisions quickly. Make a decision and if that one doesn't work out, make another one."
- Russel Crowe
"The time is always right to do what is right."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Forgive them, for they know not what they do."
- Luke 23:34
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, submitted by Fanni Davrazou
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
– Winston Churchill
"So, you see, "anecdotal observations" are what most people use, but it is a mistake. You need technical understanding and careful measurements."
- Greg Marshall, from http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CelestronCGEM/message/7404
"Ridicule is the argument of the mob."
- Immanuel Velikovsky
"I have noticed that people who claim everything is predestined, still look before they cross the road."
- Stephen Hawking.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework."
- Warren Buffett
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
- Mahatma Ghandi
"Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else's life. Dont be trapped by a dogma- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Dont let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary...."
- Steve Jobs
"Focus on what matters – not on what doesn’t."
- Eric Jackson, Forbes magazine (Article: Google's Paranoid Governance Structure Has Made It Less Innovative, Not More) - 4/13/2012
"Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up."
- Nancy Lopez
"When you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it;
but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge of it is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind:
it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely,
in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science."
- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), Found 12/6/2012: http://www.astrometrica.at/
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
