Part 3 - A collection of Quotes, One-Liners, Dialogs, Thoughts, Proverbs, Sayings....

Part 3 - A collection of Quotes, One-Liners, Dialogs, Thoughts, Proverbs, Sayings....

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Jack Welch - CEO - GE - Quotes:

The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Don’t manage - lead change before you have to.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Be candid with everyone.

"An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people."

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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
--Isaac Newton

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Everything you can imagine is real.
--Picasso

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That which is static and repetitive is boring.
That which is dynamic and random is confusing.
In between lies art.
--John A. Locke

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Never give advice...
A wise man won't need it
A fool won't heed it.
--Unknown

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Chaos theory - The butterfly effect

The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)

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"Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my drive ?"

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If it does'nt kill you, it makes you strong.

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Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.
Practice is when something works, but you don't know why.
Programmers combine theory and practice: nothing works and they don't know why.

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A famous linguist once said:
"There is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
YEAH, RIGHT

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"The opposite of love is not hate - it is indifference"

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"Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep"
Sigmund Freud

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

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Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think

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We live in a world of scarcity and limits. There are limited natural resources, limited amounts labour, a limited amount of time. Our desires always exceed these limitations and we are forced to make choices.
People act purposefully and rationally to maximise their pleasure given limited time, resources, information and budgets.

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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
--Unknown

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
--Socrates

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Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
--Rita Mae Brown

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To err is human, to forgive divine.
--Alexander Pope

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Watch your thoughts ; they become words.
Watch your words ; they become actions.
Watch your actions ; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character .
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny .

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weak minds think about people,
average minds think about events,
and great minds think about ideas.

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Having kids is hereditary. If your parents didn't have children, chances are that you won't either.

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Never be tempted to see the other person's point of view,
Because they have different desires,
Different certainties,
And different targets of blame.
Consideration of another's perspective,
Even for a moment,
Can lead to thought.

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The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.--Terry Pratchett

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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
-- Margot Fonteyn

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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being,
with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
with productive achievement as his noblest activity,
and reason his only absolute. - Ayn Rand (A Summary of the Objectivist Philosophy )

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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert von Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986), 1937 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

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"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."
- Owen Meredith Earl of Lytton

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If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

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Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

~ Catch 22

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it
~ Atticus Finch From 'To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee'

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Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

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I drink to make other people interesting

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. —Socrates

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