Non-technical Thread: Favorite Quotes

Discussion created by Dennis Dohogne on Feb 28, 2018
Latest reply on May 26, 2020 by Gary Lucas
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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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Christian Chu @ S. Casale on Mar 26, 2019 12:46 PM
S. Casale wrote:

Dennis Dohogne wrote:

Leadership is a choice. - S.Sinek
I got a tittle but I actually want to spend more time to do design work than the management job
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Jim Riddell @ Dennis Dohogne on Mar 26, 2019 1:28 PM
...since you brought it up...
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Glenn Schroeder @ Jim Riddell on Mar 26, 2019 1:44 PM
If you want to see a leader, watch for someone that readily assumes blame when things go wrong but gives credit to others when it goes right.
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Kevin Hansen Mar 26, 2019 4:16 PM
The other day, I was talking with someone who manages a shop. They told me

When we come in under budget, it's due to my team's work.
When we're over budget, it's due to outside forces.
When we're exactly on budget, it's due to my accurate projections.
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S. Casale @ Glenn Schroeder on Mar 26, 2019 4:22 PM
Glenn Schroeder wrote:

If you want to see a leader, watch for someone that readily assumes blame when things go wrong but gives credit to others when it goes right.
True most of the time, except where as the arrogance of others only sees the err's you attest to.
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Paul Salvador @ Jim Riddell on Mar 26, 2019 4:56 PM
hmm,..this reminds me of a good comparison of,.. a huge orange full of something?
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James Adkins @ S. Casale on Mar 26, 2019 6:02 PM
I agree with you on this. While it is often referred to as pushing people up, all to often the very people that get the credit will kick mud in the face of those who gave it to them to begin with. I believe in building people up and supporting their efforts but I no longer shout the praises of those whose effort was lackluster at best. They tend to be scorpions that will stand beside you while also keeping their stinger behind your back.
Good leaders not only listen but they learn to read behaviors and discern the differences between what is told and what is observed.
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Dennis Dohogne @ Glenn Schroeder on Mar 26, 2019 8:45 PM
Glenn Schroeder wrote:

If you want to see a leader, watch for someone that readily assumes blame when things go wrong but gives credit to others when it goes right.
Very true. Your statement stands on its own, Glenn.

James' comparison is also right on.

We've probably all seen/experienced people that called themselves "leaders", but only because they recognize that word has a much more positive connotation than "manager". I have had the pleasure to work for some terrific leaders. I have also had the aggravation of working under some horrible bosses. In one group I was in our immediate boss was leaving for another assignment, it was probably even a promotion. All seven of us in the group signed a thank-you card for her for leaving! Maybe not so surprisingly, I learned a whole lot from the bad bosses, as in what not to do.
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Todd Blacksher @ Dennis Dohogne on Mar 26, 2019 8:55 PM
Dennis Dohogne wrote:
Maybe not so surprisingly, I learned a whole lot from the bad bosses, as in what not to do.
I've always said that you should be able to learn something from any situation . . . how not to do something is often overlooked!
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Dennis Dohogne Mar 26, 2019 9:10 PM
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
- - -Leonardo da Vinci

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- - -Helen Keller

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
- - -Jack Welch
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Gary Lucas @ Jim Riddell on Mar 26, 2019 9:59 PM
You can make someone the boss. Leadership must be taken.
I believe in helping everyone. The slackers I help find other employment more in tune with their skills.
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John Stoltzfus Mar 27, 2019 6:37 AM
Quote of the Day.... (AWESOME)

"Using a non-parametric system for me is worse than trying to write cursive with my non-dominant hand!" ..........Dennis Dohogne
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Richard Ahlgrim Mar 27, 2019 9:22 AM
On the current topic, I wish I knew where this quote came from:

"The number one job of a manager is to see that his people have everything they need to do their job properly."
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Albert Griego @ John Stoltzfus on Mar 27, 2019 9:49 AM
The same could be said for using Solidworks without a 3D controller.
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David Lane Mar 27, 2019 10:07 AM
Did you try turning it off and back on again?
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Frederick Law @ Richard Ahlgrim on Mar 27, 2019 11:16 AM
Richard Ahlgrim wrote:

On the current topic, I wish I knew where this quote came from:

"The number one job of a manager is to see that his people have everything they need to do their job properly."
I need a few bottles .....
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Kevin Chandler Mar 27, 2019 12:29 PM
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

Thomas Jefferson
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S. Casale @ Kevin Chandler on Mar 27, 2019 12:36 PM
"eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-TJ

It's a tattoo I'm going to be getting in the next year
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Don Carter Mar 27, 2019 1:41 PM
It can't get any worse !
- - -The Pessimist

Oh, yes it can !
- - -The Optimist
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Rick Becker @ Don Carter on Mar 27, 2019 1:48 PM
Don Carter wrote:

It can't get any worse !
- - -The Pessimist

Oh, yes it can !
- - -The Optimist

I think you meant to post this in this thread... Non-Technical thread:Favorite (clean) jokes
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Tom Gagnon Mar 28, 2019 10:36 AM
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The Dude, The Big Lebowski

I didn't mean to start a meme run, but TBL has so many epic quotable lines.
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Kevin Chandler Mar 28, 2019 12:15 PM
"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

"Well done is better than well said."

"Who is wise? He that learns from every one." [This forum's ideology, if I may interject]

Ben Franklin
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Kevin Chandler Mar 28, 2019 5:45 PM
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world."

George Washington
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ömür tokman Apr 1, 2019 1:53 AM
"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

"“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.” Samuel Johnson
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Kevin Chandler Apr 1, 2019 8:00 AM
"What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors."

"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it."

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."

Robert E. Lee
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