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| Abilities | "He is able who thinks he is able." -Buddha "Great
ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." |
"A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is
to evade his obligations." -William Feather, The Treasure of Franchard
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| Adversity | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein "Adversity
has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain
dormant." "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise
and thinking that having problems is a problem." |
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything
its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from
distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he
whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles
unto death." -Thomas Paine
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| Change | Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom
awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -Frank Herbert "Only
the wisest and stupidest of men never change." "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really
living." You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see
the present only when it is already disappearing." |
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we
change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." -G. C. Lichtenberg "To
change and to change for the better are two different things." "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and
discomforts." "We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy
and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it." "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity
is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of
our lives." |
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| Character | "Our character is what we do when we think no one is
looking." -H. Jackson Browne "The
ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy." "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave
when we don't know what to do." |
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to
test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln "Character
cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can
the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
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| Computers | Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?" -Anon. "A
computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the
possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by
accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up,
there's no law against whacking them around a little." "If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?" "The computer is a moron." |
"If the automobile had followed the same development
cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the
gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." -Robert X Cringely If
you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing." "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." "Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window." "Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked." "The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied,
flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster." "I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them." |
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| Conflict | Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your
own." -John M. Barrie "Pick
battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." "All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men." |
"No doubt there are other important things in life
besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very
saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the
Devil." -Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion "When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because
he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
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| Decisions | "We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing,
but even that is a decision." -Gary Collins "Indecision
is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is
wasting water." "The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to
burn." "One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly
becomes clear what one means to do." "Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes,
merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign." |
"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where
he is going." -Anon. "If one
does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous
to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate
or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within
ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by
the deep inner needs of our nature." |