Words and Wisdom

We are not donkeys, and some of us do not eat carrots and we don’t like sticks.
Peter Block

Three outstanding attitudes - obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, and the illusion of
invulnerable status - are persistent
aspects of folly.
Barbara Tuchman

You don't drown by falling in the water;
you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten.
Kenneth Blanchard

There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas Edison

You should never take more than you give.
Elton John

Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh

The lighter your load, the faster you fly.
Jeppesen

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
the post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison

All organisms with complex nervous systems are faced with the moment-by-moment question that is posed
by life. What shall I do next?
Roger Lewin

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess!
Edwin Lang

The best is yet to come.
Leslie Wexner

Preserve me from all petty victories! ... That I may one day be ready and ripe in the great noontide ... a bow eager
for its arrow, and arrow eager for its star - a star ready
and ripe in its noontide, glowing, transpierced
... spare me for one great victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche

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