Saturday, August 18, 2007

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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