I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average ability. I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. Nor can I claim any special merit for what I have been able to achieve with laborious research. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
-- Gandhi
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably in themselves will not realized.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
-- Daniel H. Burnham, attributed.
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
-- Mother Theresa
Care more than others think wise,
Risk more than others think safe,
Dream more than others think practical,
Expect more than others think possible.
-- Howard Schultz, Pour your heart into it.
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
-- G.C. Lichtenberg, _Reflections_ 1799
Skill and Science will always out wit ignorance and superstition
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
The person who believe that they can, and the person who believe that they can't are both right.
