“Quotable Quotes…”
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A smile is the
shortest distance
between two people.
Victor Borge
Somewhere,
something great
is waiting to be
known
Carl Sagan
The brain can only absorb what
the seat can endure.
Anonymous
A lie can travel half
way around the
world before truth
can put its pants on.
Mark Twain
Question the answers
Bumper sticker
Question the questions
Zuhair Suidan
Success is a journey,
not a destination.
Anonymous
Nothing great is
ever achieved
without
enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luck happens
when preparation
meets opportunity.
Seneca
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
Mitch: What? Your finger???
Curly: Just one thing…
Mitch: What is it?… What’s the ONE thing?
Curly: That’s for you to figure out. Once you
figure it out, then nothing else means *@#%&...
City Slickers movie
Scene with Jack Palance and Billy Crystal
If you want to
double your
success rate,
just double your
failure rate.
Tom Watson
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my
career
I’ve lost almost 300 games
26 times I’ve been trusted to take the
winning shot and missed
I’ve Failed over and over again in
my life.
And that’s why
I Succeed
Michael Jordan
Success isn’t
measured by the
position you reach
in life…
It is measured by
the obstacles you
overcome.
Danny Manning
Life is a daring adventure
– or nothing.
Helen Keller
I cannot live
without books.
Thomas Jefferson
The older I get,
the better I used to be
Connie ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins
A halo needs to fall
only a few inches to
be a noose.
Anonymous
Wealth lost, something lost;
Honor lost, much lost;
Courage lost, all lost.
German proverb
Judge a man by his
questions, rather
than his answers
Voltaire
Paz con hambre no dura*.
Painted on wall in Bogota, Columbia
* Peace with hunger does not endure.
If the human brain was so
simple that we could
understand it, we would be
so simple that we couldn’t.
Emerson Pugh
Life can only be
understood
backwards,
but it must be lived
forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
When everyone else
is looking for gold,
it’s good to be in the
pick and shovel
business.
Mark Twain
The truth is more
important than
the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
You can't be a
vegetarian
only between
meals,
and you can't be a
pacifist
only between wars.
Kathy Kelly
A MIND TEASER:
There are three extremely bright men seeking the hand of Ms.
Sweet Mensa. Sweet loves her men smart, but cannot decide
which one of the three is the smartest. Consequently, she
proposes a test. Sweet places a mark on each man’s
forehead and tells them that each of them has either a blue
mark or a red mark. She instructs them to raise their hand if
they see a blue mark on either of the other two. The first man
to determine what color his mark is, and explain how he
arrived at that conclusion will have her hand in marriage.
Each man raised his hand, and a few moments later, one of
them had the answer. What color was the winner’s mark and
how did he know?
ANSWER (click here to see it more clearly):
Since all three men raised their hands, the winner knew there could
only be two possibilities. There had to be two blue and one red
mark, or three blue marks. If there was a red mark on any forehead,
the two men with the blue marks would each see a red and a blue
mark and know immediately that his had to be a blue mark since all
three raised their hands. The smartest man deduced that since
nobody answered immediately all three marks must be blue.
A MIND TEASER:
Use each of the following numbers and symbols
once and only once to come up with a valid
equation:
2
3
4
5
+
=
Can you come up with a second valid equation?
The best things in life
aren’t things.
Art Buchwald
You can achieve
anything you want in life
if you have the courage
to dream it, the
intelligence to make a
realistic plan, and the
will to see that plan
through to the end.
Sidney Friedman
A Harvard MBA and an encyclopedic
knowledge of management manifestos
can get you only so far. The real
challenges executives face are the ones
you simply can’t study for – those
unexpected tests of endurance,
patience, and wit that make or break a
company.
Business 2.0 12/03
Our lives begin to end the
day we become silent
about the things that
matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King
Never doubt that a
small group of
committed citizens can
change the world;
indeed it is the only
thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The reasonable man adapts
himself to the world.
The unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to
himself.
Therefore all progress depends
on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
If you don’t read the
newspaper, you are
uninformed.
If you do read the
newspaper, you are
misinformed.
Mark Twain
Behold, my son, with
how little wisdom the
world is governed.
Swedish statesman
Axel Oxenstierna
The longer you look
back, the farther you
can look forward.
Sir Winston Churchill
When you choose to
live in gratitude, your
cup is always full.
Joe Momyer
Sleep football
Drink football
Eat sausage
Wisconsin bumper sticker
You can count on
the Americans to
always do the right
thing after doing all
the wrong things.
Sir Winston Churchill
When two men in
business always
agree, one of them is
unnecessary.
William Wrigley Jr.
No plan ever survives
contact with the enemy.
George Patton
Plans are nothing.
Planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be careful what dreams
you have, for dreams
come true.
Anonymous
There is a loftier ambition than
to stand high in the world.
It is to stoop down and lift
mankind a little higher
Anonymous
There is no charm so great
as the charm of a cheerful
temperament.
Anonymous
Never pick a fight with
someone who buys ink by the
barrel.
An old saw
The most effective way to
cope with change is to help
create it.
Anonymous
Being broke is a condition.
Being poor is a state of mind.
Anonymous
Speaking the truth
in times of universal
deceit is a
revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Life is like a toilet paper roll.
It keeps going faster as you
approach the end.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication.
Asian saying
The definition of
insanity is doing the
same thing over and
over and expecting
different results.
Albert Einstein
Twenty years from now you
will regret the things you
didn’t do more than the
things you did, so throw off
the bow line, sail away from
the safe harbor, catch the
trade winds in your sails,
EXPLORE, DREAM,
DISCOVER, because
that’s what life is all about
Mark Twain
Vision without action
is a daydream;
action without vision
is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb