Imagine, ponderings and thoughts... #55

“You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.” - Benazir Bhutto

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.” - Muhammad Ali
 
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.” - Albert Einstein

“Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.” - David Lloyd George

“You should empower the creativity of others.” - Brad Garlinghouse

“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.” - Hannah Arend

“Most civilization is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards that could lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.” - Frank Herbert

“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?” - Steven Wright

“Pain is only temporary, giving up is forever.” - Lance Armstrong.

“Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again.” - Wolof (Senegal, The Gambia)

“The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.” - Anthony D''Angelo

"The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true." - Isaiah Berlin

And finally...

“What's another word for Thesaurus?” - Steven Wright




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Snippets and Nuggets from hither and thither... #54

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” - Tom Robbins

“There is no point in asking consumers - who do not know what they want - to say what they want.” - Russell Ackoff

“The real marketing potential of online social networks is listening, not talking.” - Tim Manners, publisher, "Reveries"

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” - Douglas Adams

“It's fine with me if design is regarded as nothing more than a business tool.” - Sam Lucente, VP of design, Hewlett-Packard

“To be or not to be that is your choice. And that choice will influence your whole life.” - Horatio Nelson

“There is nothing that a manager wants done that educated subordinates cannot undo.” - Russell Ackoff

“We don't stop laughing because we get old; we get old because we stop laughing.” - Unknown

“When the truth is missing, people feel demoralized, less confident, and ultimately are less loyal.” - Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans

“The simplest definition of design is how you treat your customer.” - Yves Behar

And finally...

“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.” - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin




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