...logical basis
"Without a Standard, there is no logical basis for decision making or taking action".
- Joseph M. Juran, Romanian-born American Engineer
The Most Dangerous Waste
"The Most Dangerous Kind of Waste is the Waste we don't Recognise."
- Shigeo Shingo, the world's leading expert on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System.
Advantage of the truth
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
More Lonely
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
- George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
Hunger for truth
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
-Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (1923-2014)
Valuable Lesson
"What's yours is yours Robin, and what's not yours will never be yours."
- Robin Sharma's Mother
All the good...
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
Thanksgiving is purely...
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
- O. Henry
Leadership is...
"Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision."
- Marshall Goldsmith
Banquet of consequences
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
-Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)
Blame and Guilt
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
-Johan Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet and dramatist (1759-1805)
The Great Teacher
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Others & themselves...
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
-Leigh Hunt, poet and essayist (1784-1859)
...without value?
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
-Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (1915-2005)
necessarily true?
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
audacity of imagination
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
-John Dewey, philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859-1952)
Thought for the day!
A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-Stephen Crane, writer (1871-1900)
...prayed to live
Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.
-Annie Laurie Gaylor, freethinker and activist (b. 2 Nov 1955)
...torture victims
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists.
-Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (1901-1976)
..acceptance of the unknown
"When it comes to achieving the life of your dreams, you must be open to journeying, to the acceptance of the unknown."
– Tony Robbins
...capable of
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
-Ingrid Bengis, writer and teacher (1944-2017)
How to remain an artist?
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)
Higher Vs smaller
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
Belief of mine...
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- Margaret Atwood
Dead & Born
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
-Sylvia Plath, poet (1932-1963)
2 possible outcomes
There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
-Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel laureate (1901-1954)
...not ignorance
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
-Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1914-2004)
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