“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
— William Arthur Ward
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
— Isaac Asimov
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
— Isaac Asimov
“Conspiracy theorists have never been project managers”
— Merlin Mann
“We plan, God laughs”
— old Yiddish proverb
“If you want to build a ship, don’t assign tasks; rather, teach others to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Without a mission, existing is difficult; doing, impossible.”
“Si on ne s’estime pas investi d’une mission, exister est difficile; agir, impossible.”
— Emil Cioran to delete this page and create new pages for your content. Have fun!
“Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.”
— Lao Tzu
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
— Jan Van De Snepscheut
“Life is one damn thing after another.”
Elbert Hubbard
“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
— Mark Twain
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain
“I’ve lived a long life and seen a lot of hard times, most of which never happened.”
— Mark Twain
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
— Seneca
“Some people learn by reading. Some others by observing. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
— Will Rogers
“It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.”
— Thomas Sowell
“Doing is one of the best forms of thinking.”
– Tom Chi
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
– Steve Jobs
“Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how unclear your thinking is.”
—Stephen Wilbers
“Don’t fear moving slowly. Fear standing still.”
— Chinese proverb
“May you live in interesting times”
— Chinese proverb
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
— Epictetus
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
— Epictetus
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”
— Savielly Tartakower
“To understand is to know what to do.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”
— Picasso
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright