Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage. – Arie de Gues
Next time something goes bump in the night, throw a pillow at it. Curiosity can be an effective substitute for courage. From Fear.Less (Subscribe: info@fearlessstories.com)
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin.
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
There is do, or not do, there is no “try”. (Paraphrase of Yoda, Star Wars)
“Clarity is the antidote to anxiety” (Marcus Buckingham)
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” (Lewis Carol)
Would I rather be happy than right any day? I don’t think so. (From Dhenuka Ganesh – taking issue with Douglas Adams.)
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”. (Bobbie McGee)
“When you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said ” (Attributed to many, including Mark Twain)
“If what you say is what you feel, that’s sincerity,
“If what you say is what you think, that’s honesty,
“If what you say is what you do, that’s integrity.”
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” (Benjamin Disraeli). “Some don’t.” Sandbox Astronomy.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt
”Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” Thomas A. Edison
“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” J. Paul Getty
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” Robert Frost
From “Understanding English humo(u)r”:
There are three types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can’t.
Give me an alligator sandwich and make it quick. (Terry Pratchett)
“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?” (Lynn Truss)
