Category: Quote of the day

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so you may be violent and original in your work.” Gustave Flauvert.

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion” Jack Kerouac.

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attepmt the absurd.” Miguel de Cervantes.

A clever man commits no minor blunders. “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them (Alfred North Whitehead).

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system (Stephen R. Covey).

“Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave. Measure me in an illogical way; don’t complain when I act illogically” (Throughput accounting theory)

1) Today’s problems come from yesterday’s “solutions.” 2) The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back. 3) Behavior will grow worse before it grows better. 4) The easy way out usually leads back in. 5) The cure can be worse than the disease. 6) Faster is slower. 7) Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space. 8) Small changes can produce big results…but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious. 9) You can have your cake and eat it too —but not all at once. 10) Dividing an elephant in half does