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Organization's code will reflect the team's communication structure.
I never dreamed of success. I worked for it.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Our deepest fear, the passage goes, is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of G*d. Your playing small does not serve the world. ... As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this).
Let's not make our mistakes in a hurry.
Now I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds.
A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
When you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Fight the bullies, to protect the powerless, to make sure that the people without a voice have a voice.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Knowledge and wisdom demand their payments.
We judge ourseleves by our best intentions and most noble deeds but we will be judged by our worst act.
They all fall to hard ball.
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
You can learn more from failure than success. In failure, you're forced to find out what what part did not work. But in success you believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
Correlation does not imply causation.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Strong people don't put others down, they pull others up.
Ye are my witness, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there was no G*d formed, neither shall there be after Me.
You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Good leadership today means listening more, and encouraging feedback instead of discouraging it.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that is why it is called the present.
One shot bang isnt sustainable, changes to be sustainable need to be done a little at a time. Must change habits.
2020 wasn't the year to get everything we ever wanted, it was the year to appreciate everything we already have.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Be sober, be viglant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Find a beautiful place and just get lost.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
You can't calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself, the storm will pass.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank G*d that such men lived.
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
You're never wrong to do the right thing.
For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
He no longer had judgement about anything or anyone.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
He could have added fortune and fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.
Your excuse account is overdrawn.
A man with a good plan violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Veni Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered).
The only easy day was yesterday.
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
And you are mistaken if you think you're going to push me around. I hated bullies on the playground when I was six, I tolerate them no better on the bench in my forties.
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
It's good to be 99% sure, that 1% sucks doesnt it.
Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.
When a friend makes a mistake, the friend remains a friend, and the mistake remains a mistake.
Tho much is taken, much abides. And tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
It's complicated. I think I can keep up.
Developers want to increase the value of the company/organization, and security wants to protect the existing value of the company/organization.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
A man with experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.
The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Your opinion of my IQ, doesnt interest me in the least.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
I do not hit. It hits all by itself.
I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of G*d, I will.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Be formless. Be shapeless. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend.
I like to pay taxes, with them, I buy civilization.
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no G*d formed, neither shall there be after me.
Raise no more devils than you can lay.
Leaders are readers.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.
Let's Another Decoration Day finds us adding to the number of graves that will be decorated in the future years. Men are stupid.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to.
If your happiness depends on something you can lose, you'll spend your entire life afraid of losing it.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
I am patient. -Exodus 34:5-6
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian, I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground.
Strong Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Care what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner.
He shows love to the foreigners living among you. -Deuteronomy 10:18
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
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