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- Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
- Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
- Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
- Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman
- There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
- I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
- General Curtis Le May
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance
- No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh
- Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz
- The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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