A continually updated list of quotations …
1. Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life
2. Quality is when the Customer returns & the products don’t
3. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere
4. The probability that we may fail in our Endeavor should not deter us from perusing on a cause we believe to be just. – Abraham Lincoln
5. Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable – John Wooden
6. I am not what i ought to be, not what i want to be, not what i am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be – John Wooden
7. It is incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success, only to discover, its leaning against the wrong wall
8. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
9. The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure now if i were a grave digger or even an hangs-man, there are some people i would work for with a great deal of enjoyment
10. The reasonable man adopts himself to the world, The unreasonable one persists in trying to adopt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
11. So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes to increase luxury and make sharper the difference between, house of have’s and the house of wants, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
12. Process Improvement – The point of PI is to improve the participants PI capabilities by coaching them as they try to improve the process.
13. Learning organizations are organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where People are continually learning how to learn together. – Peter Senge
14. The Probability that we may fail in our endeavor, should not deter us from pursuing a cause we believe to be just. – Abraham Lincoln
15. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
16. If you know the Why, you will figure out the How
17. The Happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts
18. Both Optimists and Pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the Aeroplane, the pessimist the Parachute – G.B. Shaw
19. There is no such thing as staying the same. You are either striving
to make yourself better or allowing yourself to get worse.
20. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton
21. What the pupil must learn, if he learns anything at all, is that the world will do most of the work for you, provided you cooperate with it by identifying how it really works and aligning with those realities. If we do not let the world teach us, it teaches us a lesson.” — Joseph Tussman
22. “Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.” — Andy Benoit
23. There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say – Ervin Seale
24. A man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
25.Values are like Fingerprints, Nobody’s are the same, But you leave them all over everything you do – Elvis Presley
26. You will never get a second chance to do it right the first time
27. Every man, is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. – Unknown
28. Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance
29. I will study and prepare myself and someday my chance will come.” — Abraham Lincoln
30. An Elegant Solution is one in which the optimal or desired effect is achieved with the least amount of resources. (Effort / Cost / Time)
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