Ponderings, cluelets and wonderers... (#52)

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” - Edgar Allan Poe

“Figure out what changes, what doesn't change, and what you want to change.” - Anne Hartman, Essex Partners

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ” - Nelson Mandela

“Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.” - Robert Collier

“We had 12.9 gigabytes of (Microsoft) PowerPoint slides on our network. And I thought, 'What a huge waste of corporate productivity.' So we banned it. And we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in the world, if they would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings skyrocket. Employees would stand around going, 'What do I do? Guess I've got to go to work”- Scott McNealy Sun Microsystems

“Disorganization is an issue for more people than it isn't.” - Barbara Hemphill, productivity consultant

“You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” - Olin Miller

“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.” - Gore Vidal

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

And finally...

“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So - get on your way.” - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)




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“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.” - Woody Allen

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Out and out thoughts. From out and about... (#51)

“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.” - Fernando Flores

“Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.” - Oscar Wilde

“I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (When he was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.)

“Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” - Bernard M. Baruch

“Where is there substance in a world composed of events?” - Frank Herbert

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” - Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.” - Dr. Joyce Brothers (Diane Bauer)

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” - Elbert Hubbard
 
“I'm a leader only if there are people who are willing to follow me." - Terri Kelly, Leader, W.L. Gore's Military-Fabrics Department.

“People don't care about cold facts. They care about pictures or stories." - Nancye Green, Founder, Donovan and Green

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes  

“Emotions are the igniter of thoughts”. - Frank Herbert

“A second kind of fear is based on imagination.  To overcome that, you need calmness so that you can investigate it more closely.  When you look into it in detail, your imaginary fear dissipates.” - Dali lama

And finally...

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.” - Steven Wright




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“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” - John Wayne

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Precious Stones.... (50)

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain

“Complexity well understood is about simplicity.” - Dave Snowden

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” - Segoyewatha

“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein

“Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.” - Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO, InterActiveCorp

“Figure out what behaviour needs to change and how to change it.” - David Thomson, Vice President, Hewlett-Packard

“Agencies say advertising is part of the solution because that's their output.” - Jon Wilkins, co-founder of Naked Communications

“We are on the verge of a revolution that is greater than any in the 20th century.” - Tim Smit, Cofounder, Eden Project

“If you're frightened of making a mistake, you won't make a thing.” - John Taylor, Director of Design, GM's APEx

And finally...

“Control is an illusion." - Avram Miller, VP of Business Development, Intel




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“The Definition of Definition: The wilderness of ‘idea’ trapped within a wall of words.” - Unknown

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Smart, Neat and Curious... (49)

“There are two keys to life: 1. Don’t tell everyone your secrets”.  - Cal Bigosh

“Things that don't quite make sense can be our most valuable tools." - David Wilson, Director, the Museum of Jurassic Technology

“What keeps us awake is the fact that we can think the turnaround is going pretty good and then lose a billion in a quarter." - Tom LaSorda, Chrysler's COO

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.’ - Vladimir Nabokov

“Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it”.  - Irving Berlin

“Try a lot of things to find all the dead ends, and learn from them." - Bill Gross, Founder, Idealab

“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.” - Lou Reed

“The sexy cable TV channels don’t expand our horizons, don’t make us better people and don’t come in clearly enough”. - Bill Maher

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is, ‘Who do we intend to be? That’s the business we’re in. The question one.” - Max De Pree, former CEO of Herman Miller.

"Focus clearly on what can go wrong." - Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Brain Surgeon
 
"Innovation is all about people. It is about the roles people can play, the hats they can put on." - Tom Kelley, general manager of Ideo

“Creativity can cause a lot of confusion." - Markus Mettler, Cofounder, BrainStore

“Opposition helps. Kites rise against the wind, rather than with it” - John Neal

And finally...

“Watch out for emergencies, they are your big chance”. - Fritz Reiner




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“The language of Nelson Mandela's tribe, Xhosa, has a word that perfectly sums up the truth of life: Ubuntu.  In English, it translates as "I am because you are."

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