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- Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), An Acceptable Time
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
- Henry W. Fowler (1858 - 1933), A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
- See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse V
- We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
- Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "The Expelled", 1946
- If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing, p. 147
- 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Lost Road
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