“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw in Mrs Warren’s Profession
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The Monday Morning Quote #298
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” Douglas Bader
The Monday Morning Quote #297
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” Rita Mae Brown
The Monday Morning Quote #296
“I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; I seek the things that they sought.” Matsuo Basho (b 1644)
The Monday Morning Quote #295
“Whenever a company decides it’s ok to screw its suppliers, its customers, or its employees, it is only a matter of time until it gets around to screwing all 3 groups. That is because the idea that screwing people is ok becomes the corporate mindset.” Comment about IBM on the Cringely blog
The Monday Morning Quote #294
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées Free download here.
The Monday Morning Quote #293
“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimesContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #293”
The Monday Morning Quote #292
“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” P.G.Wodehouse Can you guess what I struggled with last week? Here are a few more things that he wrote.
The Monday Morning Quote #291
“The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there—you build yourself.” Ursula K. Le Guin, writer Thanks to Michael Bungay Stanier
The Monday Morning Quote #290
“Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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