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"When the winds of change blow, some build walls while others build windmills." - Anonymous

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." - Thomas A Edison

"Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations." ― Ralph Charell

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." ― Winston Churchill

"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer" ― George Santayana

"All things are difficult before they are easy." ― Dr. Thomas Fuller

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." ― W. Edwards Deming

"Do the right things for the right reasons." ― Alexander B. Morrison

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." ― Samuel Johnson

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." ― attributed to Albert Einstein

"There are men so conservative they believe nothing should be done for the first time." ― Unknown

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you." ― Henry Ward Beecher

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." ― Martin Van Buren

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone." ― Lady Stella Reading

"Men who do things without being told draw the most wages." ― Edwin H. Stuart

"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after." ― Napoleon Hill

"It's easy to point a finger, but much harder to point the way." ― Duane Alan Hahn

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." ― Albert Einstein

"Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself." ― Gary Comer

"Vision without Execution is Hallucination." ― Thomas Edison

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not." ― Chuck Reid

"I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof." ― Winston Churchill

"If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe." ― John Maxwell

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." ― Arthur C. Clarke

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." ― Arthur C. Clarke

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ― Arthur C. Clarke

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" ― Hanlon's razor

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." — Wayne Gretzky

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" — Wayne Gretzky

"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying." ― Tony Robbins

"Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it. ― Charles R. Swindoll

"You will never become who you were meant to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now" ― Robert Tew

"Good judgement is the result of experience and experience is the result of bad judgement" ― Mark Twain

"Perfect is the enemy of good" ― Voltaire

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." ― Issac Asimov

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" ― Michael Pollan:

"We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out" — Theodore Roosevelt

"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters" — Epictetus

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves" — Confucius

"Character is fate" — Heraclitus

"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud" — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

"Everyone I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This is not your responsibility but it is your problem" — Cheryl Strayed

"Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one" — Marcus Aurelius

"You are only entitled to the action, not to its fruits" — Bhagavad Gita

"Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth" — Epicurus

"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are" — Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue" — Zeno

"Space I can recover. Time, never" — Napoleon Bonaparte

"You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out" — Warren Buffett

"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices" — Benjamin Franklin

"The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was" — Juvenal

"To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often" — Winston Churchill

"Time and patience are the strongest warriors" — Leo Tolstoy

"No one saves us but ourselves / No one can and no one may" — Buddha

"It's easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled" ― Mark Twain

"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior.  Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior." — Dee Hock


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(The best-performing firms often have more in common with humiliated bankrupts than with companies that have managed to merely survive.)

"The very traits we have come to identify as determinants of high achievement are also the ingredients of total collapse."

(and so it turns out that, behaviorally at least, the opposite of success is not failure but mediocrity)

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and last by not least:

"Yeah, but still" - urbandictionary.com: defined as the last words in an argument that serve as the intelligent person's "coup de grace" when confronted with an idiot's cop-out; it is also the only known comeback to "I'm Just Sayin'."

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