Non-technical Thread: Favorite Quotes

Discussion created by Dennis Dohogne on Feb 28, 2018
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Let's try to keep this thread on topic. Just post your favorite quotes. Let's keep the non-contributing banter to a minimum.

I keep a file to accumulate inspiring quotes. I ran across this one today and thought it was worthy of sharing. The author of the article was quoting a taxi driver he met leaving a conference. It would be nice to credit him as this is a particularly good one:

“Learn to face your problems with calmness and dignity. Never compromise your principles. Take the cards you have been dealt and play them as wisely as you can.”

- Unknown

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Rick Becker Feb 28, 2018 7:33 AM
I have several hanging in my office. Here's one...

I'm not a genius,
Just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Rick Becker Feb 28, 2018 7:36 AM
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Doug Seibel Feb 28, 2018 7:45 AM
I have a collection that I keep handy as well...

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
Anatole France

Integrity has no need of rules
Albert Camus

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there
Will Rogers

A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan

Admitting error clears the score-and proves you wiser than before
Arthur Guiterman

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it
Brendan Francis

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
Norman Vincent Peale

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russell

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated
William James

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer
Hobart Brown

We must use the time as a tool not as a couch
John F. Kennedy

People are always ready to recognize a man’s ability…after he gets there
Bob Edwards

Freedom is a system based on courage
Charles Peguy

A problem well stated is a problem half solved
Charles F. Kettering

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a mater of choice, it is not a thing to be waited for, but something to be achieved
William Jennings Bryan

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion
Dwight MacDonald

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else
Laurence J. Peter

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings
Hadding Carter

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it
Sydney J. Harris

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance
Robert Quillen

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
Theodore Roosevelt

The trouble with self-made men is that they worship their creator
Unknown

It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile
Gary Marshall

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it
John Ruskin

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe
Marilyn Vos Savant

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly
Sam Keen

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn
Unknown

There’s no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit
Ronald Reagan

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
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Ian Worrall Feb 28, 2018 7:43 AM
No matter where you go, there you are.

Buckaroo Banzai
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Dennis Dohogne Feb 28, 2018 7:50 AM
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

-- Arthur C. Clarke (b.1917) British science fiction writer
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Steve Calvert @ Ian Worrall on Feb 28, 2018 7:56 AM
Excuse me, is someone out there not having a good time?

No matter where you go has always been my favorite quote (and I've said it here on numerous times)

Steve C
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Todd Blacksher Feb 28, 2018 8:01 AM
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
-Abraham Maslow
(I tend to paraphrase this as "When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - I looked it up, because I wanted to get it right.)
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Steve Calvert Feb 28, 2018 8:05 AM
From the A-Team movie

Flight Control Commander: Are they trying to shoot down the other drone?
Capt. Charisa Sosa: No, they're trying to fly that tank.

Steve C
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Dennis Dohogne Feb 28, 2018 8:05 AM
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- - - Chinese proverb
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Rick Becker Feb 28, 2018 8:09 AM
We tend to look at things from a "scarcity perspective".
We see what didn't happen.

The challenge is looking at it from the "abundance perspective".
What actually happened?
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Todd Blacksher Feb 28, 2018 8:17 AM
One of my favorites -
Followed by one of my own -
If you are in it for the money, you will never be happy.
If you are in it to be happy, you probably aren’t as concerned about the money.
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Don Carter Feb 28, 2018 8:18 AM
I know that you believe
that you understand
what you think I said,
but I'm not sure that you realize
that what you heard
is not what I meant.
- Unknown
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Rick Becker Feb 28, 2018 8:24 AM
Wise decisions are the result of experience.
Experience is the result or unwise decisions.
Mark Twain
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Glenn Schroeder Feb 28, 2018 8:27 AM
"I spent half my money on wine, women, and song...and like a fool I squandered the rest."

Benny Hill (and similar from W. C. Fields and others)
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Dennis Dohogne Feb 28, 2018 8:35 AM
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
- - - C. S. Lewis
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Ken Maren Feb 28, 2018 8:36 AM
"Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it." -Unknown

To me, this is the reverse of the "We have always done it this way" line.
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Rick Becker Feb 28, 2018 8:40 AM
ATTITUDE

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Charles Swindoll
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Dennis Dohogne Feb 28, 2018 8:45 AM
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Paul Risley Feb 28, 2018 8:54 AM
"Poor planning on your part does not make it an emergency on mine"

Personal favorite of mine.
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Sebastyon Champion Feb 28, 2018 9:26 AM
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Jim Sculley Feb 28, 2018 9:29 AM
"The penalty for inaccuracy is more work" --Paul Sellers
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Glenn Schroeder Feb 28, 2018 9:36 AM
Life is too short to dance with ugly women or drink cheap beer.
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Paul Risley Feb 28, 2018 9:39 AM
https://youtu.be/kiBfmcma11U

This quote always cracks me up, but just typing it out of context does it no justice. There are at least a couple of times a day I would like to use it.
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Tom Gagnon @ Don Carter on Feb 28, 2018 9:47 AM
Vizzini: Inconceivable!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Tom Gagnon Feb 28, 2018 10:04 AM
Admittedly, not universally inspiring. Caustic sarcasm is comforting and inspiring to me.

Edit: Double Down with Bertrand Russell quotes.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
... and its converse, "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
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