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Niels Bohr: Expert
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”—Niels Bohr.
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Damian Conway: Documentation
“Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.”—Damian Conway.
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Dag Hammarskjöld: Thanks and yes
“For all that’s been, ‘thanks’ and for all that will be, ‘yes’.” —Dag Hammarskjöld.
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Frances Willard: Friction versus momentum
“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.”—Frances Willard.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No fool
“I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about and the reader is no fool.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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David Alpay: Either or
“You either like something, or you don’t, you wont change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.”—David Alpay.
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Dan Rockwell: Skin in the game
“When you hear complaints from team members, determine if they are contributing-complainers or dead weight. Pay attention to complaints from people with skin in the game.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Rutherford B Hayes: Serves the country best
“He serves his party best who serves the country best.”—Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4 Oct 1822-1893).
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Simon Sinek: Be better today
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”—Simon Sinek.
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Dan Rockwell: You’re on your own
“You’re on your own when people feel excluded and disrespected. Invite people to participate early and often.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Anne Rice: Changes over time
“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are..”—Anne Rice.
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Erik von Detten: In a girl
“In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who’s true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.” —Erik von Detten.
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Simon Sinek: Intentions
“Our choices reveal our intentions.”—Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Wolfe: Pinnacle of success
“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” —Thomas Wolfe, novelist.
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Mahatmas have come, Mahatmas have gone
“Mahatmas have come, Mahatmas have gone but the Untouchables have remained as Untouchables.”—Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Truth
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948).
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Dan Rockwell: Future of your relationships
“How you occur to others – when you show up – reflects the future of your relationships. Leaders who never screw up aren’t worth following. Leaders who own their failures learn empathy for others.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Warren Buffett: Margin of safety
“We think that when we make a decision, there ought to be such a margin of safety that it ought to be so attractive that you don’t have to carry it out to three decimal places.” —Warren Buffett.
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Caroline Criado-Pérez: Not paid
“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”—Caroline Criado-Pérez,Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.
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Jeffrey Archer: Deal with a fool
“If you make a deal with a fool, don’t be surprised when they act foolishly.”—Jeffrey Archer.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Live and learn
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”—Mahatma Gandhi.
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Simon Sinek: Little changes
“People are afraid of big changes, but usually embrace little changes. The best thing about little changes is they add up to one big one.”—Simon Sinek.
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Dan Rockwell: Neglect
“It’s not patient to tolerate poor performance. It’s neglect. Patience with poor performance eventually becomes permission to perform poorly. Approval becomes abuse. Develop a plan to solve issues. Don’t simply declare that you expect things to change.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Vladimir Horowitz: Make faces
“When a piece gets difficult, make faces.”—Vladmir Horowitz.
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Simon Sinek: Scary future
“The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jim Rohn: No progress without decisions
“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” — Jim Rohn.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Downside risk
“It is no secret that large corporations prefer people with families; those with downside risk are easier to own, particularly when they are choking under a large mortgage.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Dale Dauten: Don’t burn bridges
“There aren’t too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you’re a professional athlete, don’t offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don’t burn bridges.”—Dale Dauten.
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Miguel de Cervantes: No evil
“Where there’s music, there can be no evil.”—Miguel de Cervantes.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Winning general
“The winning general is the one who can best act on imperfect information and half-formed theories.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Woody Allen: Bitten by a Great Dane
“When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets… I thought she’d been bitten by a Great Dane.”—Woody Allen.
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Al Capp: Abstract art
“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”—Al Capp.
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Henri Frederic Amiel: Humility
“There is no respect for others without humility in ones self.”—Henri Frederic Amiel.
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Simon Sinek: Impact comes from action
“Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcus Aurelius: Wasting their time
“Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself and learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.” –Marcus Aurelius.
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Dr. Bo Bennett: Rational for a lifetime
“Expose an Irrational Belief, keep a person rational for a dayExpose Irrational Thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime.”—Dr. Bo Bennett, in Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of 300 Logical Fallacies.
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Dan Rockwell: Goals can kill you
“Nearly 300 people have died climbing Mt. Everest. Some didn’t quit when they should. Goals can kill you.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Jack LaLanne: Eat less, exercise more
“The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.”—Jack LaLanne.
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Joyce Wheeler: Pause
“Sometimes it’s better to leave something alone, to pause, and that’s very true of programming.” – Joyce Wheeler.
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Yahia Lababidi: Heavy with poems
“If we listen, the air is heavy with poems, ripe for plucking.” —-Yahia Lababidi, aphorist.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones: Own bathroom
“For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.”—Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Richard Feynman: Mere globs of gas atoms
‘Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms.Nothing is “mere.” I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination – stuck on this carousel my little eye can…
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Urvashi Rautela: Cheat meals
“Cheat meals can be a great tool to develop your physique. They can reset hormones responsible for metabolism and insulin regulation, replenish glycogen for increased energy, and keep calorie-burning mechanisms high.”—Urvashi Rautela.
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John Wooden: Pay that price
“Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay that price.” —John Wooden.
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Walter Lippmann: Corrupted and weakened by friends
“Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions … are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.” —Walter Lippmann, journalist (23 Sep 1889-1974).
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F Scott Fitzgerald: Ceaselessly into the past
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”—F Scott Fitzgerald.
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Simon Sinek: Authorities and leaders
“Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.”—Simon Sinek.
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Edward V Berard: Frozen
.”Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” – Edward V Berard.
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Dan Rockwell: Obstructionists
‘Obstructionists ask questions to block progress. One employee said, “When I don’t want to do something, I start asking lots of questions.“‘ —Dan Rockwell.
