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Ideas That Motivate Vic It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Teddy Roosevelt Yoda (in an exchange with Luke Skywalker): Luke: “I don’t believe it!” Yoda: “That is why you fail.”
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW--
What a Ride!" “The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from ones main purpose to serve a job here and there.” George Fox University, MBA, Bus 555 Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson (1874-1956); Chairman of IBM; 1943
The concept is interesting and well-formed; but in order to earn better than a C; the idea must be feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smiths paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson; president; chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.; 1977
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford (1863-1947) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Work like you don't need the money. Sing like nobody's listening. Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've
never been hurt
"I've been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!" -Anonymous survivor of terrorist and Nazi attacks contrasting Al-Qaida's London bombing with the Blitz of 1940.
“Follow your curiosities, think of adventures you’ve always wanted to have in your life and start having them now. Believe me, what seems like pleasuring yourself will ultimately become a gift for other people”. -Howard Bloom
Happiness keeps you Sweet, (Thanks to Kathy Withrow) "And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:32) "The truth might make you free, but first it will piss you off." (Vic 4:20) “I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: ‘Our country—when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.’” Carl Schurz, former US Senator, Anti-Imperialistic Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 1899
—Schurz, “The Policy of Imperialism,” Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, pp. 119–20 (1913). |