Las idioteces se dividen en tres clases, según su grado de necedad:

tonterías, estupideces y pendejadas. -Caton

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state
from mere excess of comfort. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know

where we can find information upon it." (Samuel Johnson)

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even
how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know
and what you don't." (Anatole France)

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are
needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they
must have a sense of success in it. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and
social reformer (1819-1900)

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck
out." (James Bryant Conant)

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him,
and to let him know that you trust him. -Booker T. Washington, reformer,
educator, and author (1856-1915)

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand
in their own education." (Sir Walter Scott)

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I
have one. -Cato the Elder, statesman, soldier, and writer (234-149 BCE)

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not

waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." (Jack London)

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a
sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in
all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too,
shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of
pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -Abraham Lincoln, 16th
U.S. President (1809-1865)

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of
life. -Leo Tolstoy, author (1828-1910)

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are

consequences. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the
bore." (Samuel Butler

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is

noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience,
which is the bitterest. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478
BCE)

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly, I
can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." (William Shakespeare)

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity
to do it, is the key to happiness." (John Dewey)

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and
the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and
love. -Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, author (1745-1832)

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? -Edward

Young, poet (1683-1765)

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody

else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." (Michael Korda)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold
weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
-Leonardo Da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
 "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." (Thomas Alva
Edison)

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even
how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know
and what you don't." (Anatole France)

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have
of it. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author
(1743-1826)

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility

on him, and to let him know that you trust him." (Booker T. Washington)

"There is a limit to what a genius can do with the material with

which he must work. If you turn over any given football team to the best
coach in America, he may win two more games than the most incompetent coach
would win with the same material." (Edward Bennett Williams)

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people

who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
(Albert Einstein)

Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author,

and inventor (1706-1790)
 "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so
long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones
which open for us." (Alexander Graham Bell)

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must

do." (Johann von Goethe)

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire,

philosopher (384-322 BCE)

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to

have the life that is waiting for us." (E.M. Forster)

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
-Irish proverb

"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a
sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in
all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this,
too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of
pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!" (Abraham Lincoln)

"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)

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you
can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a
spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to
them." (John von Neumann)

"If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but
subtract from the sum of his desires." (Seneca)
 Everything you've learned in school as `obvious' becomes less and less
obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no
solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are
no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
-R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (1895-1983)
Without darkness there are no dreams. -Karla Kuban, novelist

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its

own fire. -John W. Foster, clergyman (1770-1843)
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs
your vision. -Hsi-Tang

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without
trials. -Chinese Proverb

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by
taking up another. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate
(1844-1924)

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and
refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,
not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart;
to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions,
hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common--this is my symphony. -William Henry Channing,
clergyman, reformer (1810-1884)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, writer

and philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. -Nathaniel

Branden, psychotherapist (1930- )

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is

competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
(Isaac Asimov)
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -
all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward
Everett Hale, clergyman and author (1822-1909)

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the
same good things for the first time." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your
imagination and make them pop like chestnuts. -Gustave Flaubert, novelist
(1821-1880)

Nature uses as little as possible of anything. -Johannes Kepler, astronomer

(1571-1630)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones

to keep. -Scott Adams, cartoonist (1957- )

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical
instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without
this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. -Marcel Proust,
novelist (1871-1922)

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it." (Pablo Picasso)

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -Tennessee Williams,
dramatist (1911-1983)

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a

mistake when you make it again." (Franklin P. Jones)

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by

stupidity. -Hanlon's Razor
 "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is
everything." (Henri Poincare)

"To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be

dissatisfied at all times."
- Peter Koestenbaum, Philosopher and Business Consultant

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. -Duke Ellington, jazz

pianist, composer, and conductor (1899-1974)

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -Ovid, poet (43
BCE - CE 17)

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about

something." (Thomas H. Huxley)

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
-Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't

come from having too much to do. It comes
from not finishing what they've started."
- David Allen, Productivity Guru

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."

(Edward de Bono)

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate

between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital
connection between them. -Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if

inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. -Igor Stravinsky, composer
(1882-1971)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a

listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
 which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia, author
(1924-1998)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

""The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
(B.F. Skinner)

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover

ourselves than by those given to us by others." (Blaise Pascal)

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer
(1729-1797)

"Remember what Simonides said -- that he never repented that he had

held his tongue, but often that he had spoken." (Plutarch)

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an
international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the
best, you very often get it." (W. Somerset Maugham)

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. -Neil

Postman, professor and author (1931- )

"We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a

problem when looking back at its solution." (George Polyá)

The hardest person to awaken is the one already awake. -Tagalog saying

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the

fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to
be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. -Louis Dembitz Brandeis,
lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)
 He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. -Joseph
Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -Leo

Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (1924-1998)

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the

conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge." (Albert Einstein)

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and
radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. -Nikos Kazantzakis,
poet and novelist (1883-1957)

The course of true love never did run smooth. -William Shakespeare,
playwright and poet (1564-1616)

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit
men. -Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a

lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. -Samuel Johnson,
lexicographer (1709-1784)

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its

government.  -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. "(Francis Bacon)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo
Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for

what he is, and respect for what he may become. -Louis Pasteur, chemist and
bacteriologist (1822-1895)
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with
one, and a lily with the other. -Chinese proverb

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for

other people. -Thomas Mann, novelist, Nobel laureate (1875-1955)

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right
that he claims for himself. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator
(1833-1899)

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

(Charles Chaplin)

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge: fitter to

bruise than polish. -Anne Bradstreet, poet (1612-1672)

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a
very narrow field. -Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What

happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. -Ashley Montagu,
anthropologist and writer (1905-1999)

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."
(Professor Irwin Corey)

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough

to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well
enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

""You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."

(Anton Checkov)

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. -Henry

David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself. -Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)

"When you wish to instruct be brief -- so that people's minds can

quickly grasp what you have to say, understand your point, and retain it
accurately. Unnecessary words just spill over the side of a mind already
crammed to the full." (Cicero)

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

-Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)

"Endure, and save yourself for happier times." (Virgil)

"i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly
spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is
natural which is infinite which is yes"
                           (e.e.cummings)

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you
must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate
(1856-1950)
 To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light.
-Carl G. Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)

"None but myself ever did me any harm. I was, I may say, the only
enemy to myself: my own projects, that expedition to Moscow, and the
accidents which happened there, were the causes of my fall. I must say,
though, that those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me,
accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who
did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering
to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too
powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Tears are not arguments. -Machado de Assis, writer (1839-1908)

 "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitude." (William James)

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never

passionately desire it." (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, / and you're hampered by

not having any, / the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, / is
simply by spinning a penny. / No - not so that chance shall decide the
affair / while you're passively standing there moping; / but the moment the
penny is up in the air, / you suddenly know what you're hoping. -Piet Hein,
poet and scientist (1905-1996)

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily
and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. -Benjamin
Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than
enough." (William  Blake)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. -Piet Hein,
poet and scientist (1905-1996)

"It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you were well
taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb assembled in the
classroom for explosion at a later date. An educational fuse of 50 years
long is by no means unusual." (Kenneth D. Gangel)
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never
ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. -Johann Gottfried Von
Herder, critic and poet (1744-1803)

"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be

a subject of interest." (William Hazlitt)

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one

begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
-Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (1859-1930)

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -William Butler
Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."
(Dick Cavett)

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life
does greatly please. -Edmund Spenser, poet (1552-1599)

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and

intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only
difficult." (Samuel Johnson)

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that

we can solve them." (Isaac Asimov)

What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in
the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae
will not get a definite result out of loose data. -Thomas Henry Huxley,
biologist and writer (1825-1895)

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives." (Abba Eban)
 The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and
err again, but less and less and less. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist
(1905-1996)

Let early education be a sort of amusement, you will then better be able to
find out the natural bent of the child. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. -Niels Bohr,
physicist (1885-1962)

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." (Sir Francis
Bacon)

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the
world; the humorist makes fun of himself." (James Thurber)

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy
and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly
photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
-Elizabeth Bowen, novelist (1899-1973)

"Once we admit that there is room for newness -- that there are
vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes -- we must
confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we
inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are.
Any number of arbitrary small perturbations along the way could have made
the world as we know it turn out very differently." (Paul Romer)

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till
the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and
clear light." (Isaac Newton)

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. -Kin Hubbard, humorist
(1868-1930)

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are
running from, and to, and why." (James Thurber)

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running
from, and to, and why. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be

sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Be yourself and do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; in

the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
-Max Ehrmann, writer and lawyer (1872-1945)
 "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to
notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is
little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes
our thoughts and deeds." (R.D. Laing)

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, -- quieter, warmer. -Dag Hammarskjold,

Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel laureate (1905-1961)

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had
really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that
all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and
the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places
and how the weather was." (Ernest Hemingway)

You are never too old to be what you might have been. -George Eliot (Mary
Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without
leaving some mark on it forever." (Francois Mauriac)

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have
been." -John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to

found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates,
a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. -Henry David
Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

¨This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give
alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor
to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and induldence toward the
people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of
families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-
examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults
your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not
only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your
eyes and in every motion and joint of your body...¨  Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (by
Shannon Shea)

"A thick skin is a gift from God." (Konrad Adenauer)

 "Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a
sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see
things clearly." (José Ortega y Gasset)

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the
greatest virtues. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
(1596-1650)

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only
true good."  (Søren Kierkegaard)

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in
the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. -Walt Whitman, poet
(1819-1892)

People change and forget to tell each other. -Lillian Hellman, playwright
(1905-1984)

"The secret of joy is the mastery of pain." (Anaïs Nin)

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
-Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)
 "Everything is practice." (Pelé)

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained
from your successes. -Cullen Hightower, salesman and writer (1923- )

"If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never
have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place."
(Robert Schumann)

"However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape

ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of
others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the
echo of ourselves in their words." (Eric Hoffer)

"The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is

not out there. It's in here." - Marshall Goldsmith

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of
good books. -Elizabeth Barret Browning, poet (1806-1861)

"You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive
training."
—Seth Godin

"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."(Ray Charles)

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. -Chuang-Tzu,

philosopher (4th c. BCE)

"We've abandoned the idea that work should be a 24- hour-a-day

rush and that careers should be a wild adventure."
—Po Bronson
 When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was
Always. -Rita Rudner, comedienne (1955- )

A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb

"It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy,
ambition and plenty of ignorance." (Alfred P. Sloan Jr.)

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is
and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes, writer (1547-1616)

"Assume you'll have problems, assume you'll have errors, and build
in the ability to deal with them and keep working."
—Bill Pulleyblank, IBM

"Businesses that provide opportunities for employees to give back

create balance -- for the company and for its employees."
—Marguerite W. Sallee, Chairwoman and CEO, Frontline Group

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." (William
Blake)

"Organizations are living organisms, not engineering artifacts."

—John Old, Knowledge Management Expert

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary

learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading
man, and studying all the various editions of them. -Philip Dormer
Stanhope, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

"Rhetoric doesn't get you anywhere. You have to focus on the

benefits that you can deliver to customers."
—Mike McCue, President and COO, Tellme Networks

"We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so
we are much closer to finding what will." (Thomas Edison)

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
-Confucius (c. 551-479? BC)
"Sometimes, the most appropriate thing to do with five free minutes
is to water the plants."
—David Allen, Productivity Whiz

"Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution." (Karl

Kraus)

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more
in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and
by moonlight. -Robertson Davies, writer (1913-1995)

"When you're best in class, you risk standing still. It's easy to be too
content."
—Don Winkler, Former CEO Ford Motor Credit

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -Henry Winkler, actor (1945-)

"People only see what they are prepared to see." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"As regards the celebrated "struggle for life," it seems to me for

the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as
the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but
rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle
it is a struggle for power." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"There's a difference between being busy and being productive."

—Kristen Lippincott, Curator, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England

"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great
personal cost." (William Carlos Williams)

"Smart people go around the risks, not through them."

—Robert Oatman, President, R.L. Oatman & Associates Inc.

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and

autumn a mosaic of them all. -Stanley Horowitz

"Innovation is not an event, a tool, or an application. It is an overall

environment."
—Monte Ford, SVP Information Technology and CIO, American Airlines
 "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one
dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are
relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past,
present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the
present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. (Anaïs Nin)

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our

neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the
property of all. -Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)

"The forgotten aspect of creativity is discipline."

—John Riccitiello, President and COO, Electronic Arts

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front

only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had
to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
(Henry David Thoreau)

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold
intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond
compare. -Kenko Yoshida, essayist (1283-1352)

"Good strategy does not rely on anticipation alone."

—Karl Weick, Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / Most ignorant of
what he's most assured, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays
such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.
-William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."
(Claude Monet)

"There's a human yearning for a certain amount of toughness."

—Andy Pearson, Chairman and CEO, Tricon

The tears of strangers are only water. -Russian proverb

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. -Marshall McLuhan,

cultural historian and communications theorist (1911-1980)

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by
their fruits. -Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)
 "You need more diversity than you can imagine."
—Candice Carpenter, Cofounder and Chairman, iVillage

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of
their time each day. -M. Grundler

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher.
I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad
points of the other and correct them in myself. -Confucius, philosopher and
teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)

"Do things with intention, not with extension."

—Lionel Poilane, Baker

"The real investment at a conference is in your time."

—Samir Arora, Cofounder and CEO, NetObjects Inc.

"Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing

how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier." (John
Dewey)

"I want to contribute more to earth than I take away from it."
—Russell Simmons, CEO, Rush Communications

"It's better to be 80% right today than 100% right tomorrow.

—Becky Stein, Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.

"The only true exploration, the only real Fountain of Youth, will not
be in visiting foreign lands, but in having other eyes, in looking at the
universe through the eyes of others." (Marcel Proust)

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. -John Cleese,
comic actor (1939- )

"To make real change, you have to be well anchored."

—Twyla Tharp, Choreographer, Twyla Tharp Dance

"As soon as you think you know it all, you get burned."
—Joe Bagaglio, Executive Officer, U.S. Military Academy

"Thinking too far ahead is a waste of time."

 —Bruce Pandolfini, Chess Master

"Being defeated appears to be an inexhaustible wellspring of

intellectual progress." (Reinhart Koselleck)

"Don't be afraid to work with people who make you uncomfortable."

—Robert B. Reich, Professor, Brandeis University

"An idea that wins ultimately does so because of intelligent

seeding."
—Seth Godin, Idea Merchant

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

-Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." (Cicero)

"Good leaders can affect how we think."

—Bill Jensen, President, The Jensen Group

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -Norman Cousins, author and editor

(1915-1990)

"Try not to wreck the community."

—John Mayberry, Former CEO, Dofasco Inc.

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-time thing. You don't win
once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them
right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." (Vince
Lombardi)

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham

"What motivates people changes."

—Jennifer Schroeger, District Manager, UPS

"Nobody ever died of laughter." (Max Beerbohm)

"Priorities take money."

—Joe Watson, CEO, StrategicHire.com
 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David
Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God
is compassion. -Meister Eckhart, theologian (c. 1260-1327)

"Creativity is not a solitary occurrence."

—Andy Stefanovich, Cofounder, Play

"It is by logic that we prove but by intuition that we discover."

(Henri Poincaré)

Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level

of incompetence. -Laurence J Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the

illusion of knowledge." (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them. -Albert Einstein,

physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
(1475-1564)

"Everyone spends a fraction of their day on R&D."

—Jonathan Rosenberg, Vice President, Google

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. -Aldous Huxley,
writer (1894-1963)

"The only real failure is failing to be creative."

—Joe Martins, Fluke Corp.

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with
gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so
much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the
growing plant and for the soul of the child." (Carl Jung)

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not
giving it. -William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)
 They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see
nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman
(1561-1626)

"Compliments have more power when they're delivered directly."

—Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, Harvard Graduate School of Education

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those
who are kind. -Malayan Proverb

"Learn to speak from the customer's view."

—Ranjan Acharya, Vice President, Wipro Ltd.

"             !" (Marcel Marceau)

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

-Cato The Elder, statesman and writer (234-149 BCE)

"Changing the language of an organization can be a huge success."

—Monique Connor, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh
before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good
man." (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are
none to be envied. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." (John
Wooden)

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid

undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. -Socrates,
philosopher (469?-399 BCE)

"Learning is up to each individual."

—Brook Manville and Nathaniel Foote, McKinsey and Co.

"May you live every day of your life." (Jonathan Swift)

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -John Ruskin,

author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
"The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing
on them."
—Tom Morris, Chairman, Morris Institute for Human Values

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and
philosopher (1803-1882)

"The most effective leaders are in touch with their personal stories."
—Noel Tichy, Professor, University of Michigan Business School

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." (Ovid)

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your
tasks. -Phillips Brooks, bishop and orator (1835-1893)

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. -Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to

self-confidence is preparation." (Arthur Ashe)

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. -Chinese
Proverb

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -Mark Twain, author
and humorist (1835-1910)

"The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life -- and

out of which all other damages are birthed -- is arguably our separation
from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When
we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical
and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living."
(Richard Strozzi-Heckler)

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire
called conscience. -George Washington, 1st US president (1732-1799)

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity
for experience. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

"Creative people need a huge amount of variety."

—Tom Turpin, CEO, Will Vinton Studios
 "Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks." (Herodotus)

"Satisfaction at work depends on nothing more than self-

knowledge."
—Marcus Buckingham, Senior Consultant, Gallup Organization

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish
together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between." (Sir
Thomas Beecham)

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. -Meister Eckhart,
theologian (c. 1260-1327)

"The key is being truly interested in listening."

—Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University

I wish you all the joy that you can wish. -William Shakespeare, playwright
and poet (1564-1616)

"We have to look down, not up."

—Ted Childs, Vice President, IBM

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper."(Eden Phillpotts)

"People everywhere have hard choices to make."

—Susan Podziba, Faculty Associate, Harvard Law School

Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing; / Only a
signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; / So on the ocean of life
we pass and speak one another, / Only a look and a voice; then darkness
again and a silence. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)

"Evolution is the most powerful tool we have for dealing with

change."
—Seth Godin, Author, "Survival Is Not Enough"

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has
good company. -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)
 "If a team has no soul, you're just wasting your time."
—Bob Ladouceur, Coach, De La Salle Spartans

"Observation; orientation; decision; action."

—Keith Hammonds, Deputy Editor, Fast Company

"The only relationships worth having are relationships based on

trust."
—Susan RoAne, Author, "How to Work a Room"

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
(Abraham Lincoln)

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't
fit to live." (Martin Luther King Jr.)

"Try to be one of the people on whom nothing gets lost." (Henry James)

"Choice isn't always easy to manage."

—Joseph Martha, VP, Mercer Management Consulting

"What if you created something that would last forever?"

—Richard LeFauve, President, General Motors University

"If you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret."

—John Gregory, Author, "A Father's Legacy to His Daughters"

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the
doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in
doing it; which last is itself another form of duty. -John Ruskin, author,
art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. -P.D. James, writer
(1920- )

"Work is theatre."
—Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, Authors, "The Experience Economy"

"In a world of uncertainty, scenarios provide focus."

—Roger Rainbow, Royal Dutch/Shell
 The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung,
psychiatrist (1875-1961)

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
-Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

"If you're afraid, you're going to get stuck."

—Roxanne Quimby, CEO, Burt's Bees

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you
must approach each man by the right door. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and
writer (1813-1887)

"We want catalysts who will challenge the people around them."
—Grace Waldrop, Learning Officer, American Cancer Society

"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and

childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being,
which is a passion to live beyond one's death. (Rollo May)

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old
ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into
every corner of our minds." (John Maynard Keynes)

"Small paper leads to small vision."

—Gail Taylor, MG Taylor Corp.

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves
you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." (D.H. Lawrence)

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds,
they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things
they failed to obtain. -Emile Herzog, writer (1885-1967)

"Work life is about picking the lesser of two or three evils."

—Anne Kreamer, Consultant

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution." (Johann

Wolfgang von Goethe)
 Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full
breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit
itself to mankind. -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician,
Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

"The most powerful force in business is love."

—Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer, Yahoo

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage
to defend it." (Pericles)

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some
blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow
is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and
philosopher (1803-1882)

"Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." (Anais Nin)

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its

value is not in its taste, but in its effects. -J. William Fulbright, US
Senator (1905-1995)

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own
brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama

Never spend your money before you have it. -Thomas Jefferson, third US
president, architect and author (1743-1826)

"There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational

effectiveness."
—Michael Porter, Professor, Harvard Business School

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels,

art would be ineffectual." (Honoré de Balzac)

A bit beyond perception's reach / I sometimes believe I see / that life is

two locked boxes / each containing the other's key. -Piet Hein, poet and
scientist (1905-1996)

"They have this great advantage of not knowing what's impossible."

—Youssef El-Mansy, Head of Development, Intel
 To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes
perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul,
sincerity, earnestness and kindness. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher
(c. 551-478 BCE)

"You have to understand what real teamwork is."

—Nelson Farris, Director of Corporate Education, Nike

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. -Charles
Schulz, cartoonist (1922-2000)

"The art of leadership is keeping the tension between too little and
too much stress."
—Richard Leider, Founding Partner, Inventure Group

"You have to discover the heart and soul of a project."

—David Rockwell, Founder, Rockwell Group

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." (Seneca)

"It's about the people, not the technology."

—Tom Bevilacqua, Executive Vice President, E*Trade Group Inc.

Even a lie is a psychic fact. -Carl Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. -Jewish proverb

"Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."

(Theodore Levitt)

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. -Hippocrates, physician

(460-c.377 BCE)

"Life need not be easy provided only that it is not empty."  (Lise
Meitner)

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice." (Henry Ford)

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of
his own face. -William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863)

God comes to the hungry in the form of food. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(1869-1948)
You need a strong overarching vision and a plan to make things
happen.
—Chih Cheung, CEO, HelloAsia

Those who wish to sing always find a song. -Swedish proverb

"You need to have passion, and it has to be genuine."

—H. Muir, Training Manager, SC Johnson

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your

physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing
weary." (Thomas A. Edison)

"My job was to be loyally subversive."

—Gordon MacKenzie, Creative Paradox, Hallmark

"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."

(Theodore Roethke)

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. -Zen saying

"Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too
large quantities." (Lord Dunsany)

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be
governed by men worse than themselves. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it
this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that
runs counter-clockwise." (Grace Hopper)

If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20
years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men. -Chinese
proverb

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its
creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too
little falls into lazy habits of thinking." (Albert Einstein)

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and
he's not the same man. -Heraclitus, philosopher (c. 540-470 BCE)
 "The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false
idea occupying that niche." (Robert Heinlein)

"All ideas must have passionate advocates behind them."

—Thomas Davenport, Professor, Babson College

The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines
only on the waves behind us. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic
(1772-1834)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist

sees the opportunity in every difficulty." (Winston Churchill)

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist,
and dramatist (1802-1885)

"We want to understand design from the operational standpoint."

—Scott Ault, VP, BRC Imagination Arts

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The
learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

"You can't turn people into just a pair of hands."

—Dan Taylor, Supervisor, Industrial Light and Magic

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you. -Pericles, statesman (430 BCE)

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction

a sign of truth."  (Blaise Pascal)

When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. -Russian proverb

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-Harper Lee, writer (1926- )

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

-Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)

"You cannot lead if you don't believe."

—C.K. Prahalad, Professor, University of Michigan Business School
 "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop
playing." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Do it as if it counts, or else you're just wasting time."

—Betsy Komjathy, Partner, Rogen International Ltd.

"Competitions are for horse, not artist" (Béla Bartók)

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

(Robertson Davies)

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,

something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison, writer
(1672-1719)

"You have to have profit before you can do anything at all."

—Richard Barrett, Founder, Barrett and Associates

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps
someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. -Carl
Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

"A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and

mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and
sentiments." (4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope)

"Living and working in the same community is a tried-and- tested

formula."
—Ashley Dobbs, Televillage Pioneer

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe." (Anatole France)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

-Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)

"Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if
we only will tune in."
– George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. -Isaac
Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
 "The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want." (Ben Stein)

"What is now proved was once imagined." (William Blake)

"You aren't dealing with rational processes in the workplace."

—Claire Crittenden, Integrative Performance Technologies

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. -Christion
Morgenstern, writer (1871-1914)

"If you don't have passion and you're not committed, don't waste
your time."
—Skip Cummins, CEO, Cyberonics Inc.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you
food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not
friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or
happiness. -Henrik Ibsen, playwright (1828-1906)

"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably

to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good
order." (Francis Bacon

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing:
no one to blame. -Erica Jong, writer (1942- )

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five
hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day,
only ONE day, of modern warfare. -Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director
(1921-2004)

"Love is metaphysical gravity." (R. Buckminster Fuller)

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a

thousand head-bowings in prayer. -Saadi, poet (c. 1200 AD)

"Virtue is more important than money."

—Martha Craven Nussbaum, Philosopher

"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the
reflection of his own face." (William M. Thackeray)
 Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop. -H.L. Mencken,
writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

"Find ways to generate more revenue -- and jobs -- from the same
raw materials."
—Gunter Pauli, Founder, Zero Emissions Research Initiative

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers
his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self." (Aristotle)

"Humans create, reinforce, and disseminate knowledge through

conversations."
—Bill Isaacs, Founder, Dialogos

"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. -Chinese

proverb

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean
merges into the drop. -Kabir, reformer, poet (late 15th century)

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a
light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it
has cost me." (Henri Matisse)

Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish
day by day. -German proverb

Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but only in still water.
-Chuang Tzu, philosopher (c. 4th century BCE)

"You are much more successful coming in and finding out what's
going right and nurturing that."
—Meg Whitman, CEO, eBay

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which

difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." (John Quincy Adams)

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future
of the human race. -H.G. Wells, writer (1866-1946)
 "Most of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too
much to do -- it comes from not keeping agreements they've made
with themselves."
—David Allen, David Allen and Co.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." (Ben

Franklin)

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who
do not wish to hear it. -Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

"Doing strategy is ultimately about engaging human beings to take a

leap."
—Keith Yamashita, Cofounder, Stone Yamashita Partners

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the
other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more
effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." (Theodore
Roosevelt)

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide. -William James, psychologist and
philosopher (1842-1910)

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. -Virginia Woolf,
writer (1882-1941)

"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make

their experiments on journalists and politicians." (Henrik Ibsen)

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's

great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. -Robert M.
Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)

"We cannot create leadership out of nothing."

—Henry Mintzberg, Professor, McGill University

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men
will do when they don't have to. -Walter Linn

"Beware the fury of a patient man." (John Dryden)

 Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call
forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed,
whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

     "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." (Sir Francis Bacon)

He who sings scares away his woes. -Miguel de Cervantes, novelist

(1547-1616)

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." (Seneca)

"Change the way people think about something."

—Barry Soloway, VP of Product Realization, Novalux

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and
pretty soon you have a dozen.--John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate
(1902-1968)

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. -Henry Lytton

Bulwer, diplomat and author (1801-1872)

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. -Joseph Joubert,
essayist (1754-1824)

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the
whole of our existence. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. -Lebanese proverb

"Try a lot of things to find all the dead ends, and learn from them."
—Bill Gross, Founder, Idealab

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and
critic (1880-1956)

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. -Spanish

proverb

"Figure out what behavior needs to change and how to change it."
—David Thomson, Vice President, Hewlett-Packard
 Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
-Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator,
composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

“…fumé como chacuaco, bebí como cosaco, follé como verraco y comí como bellaco.”
-Catón

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of

the rest of mankind. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

"Moving on means letting go of your old role."

—Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, Professor, Dartmouth

"I'm a leader only if there are people who are willing to follow me."
—Terri Kelly, Leader, W.L. Gore's military-fabrics dept.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was
service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -Rabindranath Tagore,
philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel
laureate (1861-1941)

"Leadership is a personal journey for each person."

—Donna Riley, VP, IBM

n some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be

educated. -Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be

chewed and digested. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman
(1561-1626)

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or

any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or
goals are in doubt. -Robert T. Pirsig, author and philosopher (1928- )

"There is always more to do than there is time to do it."

—David Allen, Founder, David Allen and Co.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the
religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

"A company can be friendly and good, but it can't really make you
happy."
—Lawrence Kersten, Founder, Despair Inc.
 Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will
bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais
Nin, author (1903-1977)

If you want to work on your art, work on your life. -Anton Chekhov,
short-story writer and dramatist (1860-1904)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink / Falling like dew upon a thought,
produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -Lord Byron,
poet (1788-1824)

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where

teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -Arthur Koestler,
novelist and journalist (1905-1983)

Because we don't understand the brain very well we're constantly tempted to
use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my
childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone
switchboard. (What else could it be?) And I was amused to see that
Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain
worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic
and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and now,
obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. -John R. Searle,
philosophy professor (1932- )

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will
bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais
Nin, author (1903-1977)

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with
a harvest. -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857)

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of
those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too
little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
 These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves. -Gilbert Highet, writer (1906-1978)

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a
routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an
unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That
is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for
us to understand that. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

"I felt that I could make a difference. That's the best reason to go
into business."
—Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group

"Success should not include things like integrity, family, or quality

of life."
—Bonnies St. John Deane, Author, 'Succeeding Sane'

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the
world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do,
how we look, what we say, and how we say it. -Dale Carnegie, author and
educator (1888-1955)

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. -Earl Wilson, columnist
(1907-1987)

"Design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and

comfortably."
—James P. Hackett, CEO, Steelcase Inc.

It does not require many words to speak the truth. -Chief Joseph, native
American leader (1840-1904)

"See the broad possibilities and take a more open-minded

approach."
—Mark Royal, senior consultant, Hay Group

A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be
free. -Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957)

I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free. -Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and
novelist (1883-1957)
 You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it
turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott, writer
(1954- )

"Successful people let go of the past as quickly as they can."

—Howard Morgan, leadership consultant

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and
woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold
and hungry and weary. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author
(1817-1862)

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of

its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of
attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the
overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert
Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)

There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real

gold somewhere. -Sufi proverb

"Creativity in itself is temperamental, but leadership can't afford to

be so."
—Dany Lennon, president, the Creative Register Inc.

"Companies have to understand human behavior."

—Justine Foo, manager, Neurostrategies Group, BrightHouse

"You do the big things by doing the little things right."

—Stephen Cooper, chairman and CEO, Etec Systems Inc.

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his
thumb on the scales. -Byron J. Langenfeld

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy.
I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies;
that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
-Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and
that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash,
author (1902-1971)
 Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency
towards standardization and uniformity. -Arnold Toynbee, historian
(1889-1975)

"The best teachers drive themselves to be continuous learners."

—Wendy Kopp, Founder and president, Teach for America

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

-Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body
and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get
rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances
drive them to do. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist
(1811-1896)

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but
if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. -John Locke,
philosopher (1632-1704)

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the
university has failed you. -Robert Goheen, President, Princeton University

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

God is subtle, but he is not malicious. -Albert Einstein.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. –Aristotle

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few
are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles
fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
-Sydney J. Harris

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin

One's reach must exceed their grasp, or what's a heaven for? -Robert Browning

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -William James

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our
present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that
exist. -William James
The secret of education is respecting the pupil. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of

continually asking questions. -Bishop Mandell Creighton

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves

throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life
in which he is placed. -Helen Keller

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make
yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you
like it or not. -Thomas Henry Huxley

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work,
pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics
without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their
intellects. -Robert Maynard Hutchins

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody." (Bill Cosby)

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another
mind. -James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) [Nationality in Literature]

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in
the opposite direction." (E.F. Schumacher)

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will
not himself find peace. -Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher, physician,
and musician (Nobel 1952)

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what
happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

"True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them." (Arlene

Croce)

Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but it doesn't

get you anywhere. -Dorothy Galyean
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it
out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock
it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
-Lord Chesterfield

"I am a great believer, if you have a meeting, in knowing where you

want to come out before you start the meeting. Excuse me if that doesn't
sound very democratic." (Nelson Rockefeller)

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real

feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn
about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the
language that she speaks in. -Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good

impromptu speech." (Mark Twain)

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it. –Aristotle
"I do not seek. I find." Pablo Picasso

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the
world, but to change it. -Colin Wilson

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much
you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you
don't. -Anatole France

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do,

stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. -Blaise
Pascal (1623-1662)

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things
worth reading or do things worth writing. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

I never did a day's work in my life; it was all fun. -Thomas Edison
(1847-1931)

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not

preserve myself. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset [Meditations on Quixote] (1883-1955)
"Life does not consist mainly -- or even largely -- of facts and
happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever
blowing through one's head." (Mark Twain)

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. -John Wooden

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-Irish Proverb