Damaged goods is all I see. Hardened faces look back at me. Where are all the innocents-unscarred by the
battle.
Damned in the midst of paradise
Dare to dream out loud.
Daring ideas are like chessmen
moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Darwinian chance rather than
providential design determines what happens.
Das Rheingold: Beware! / For when you men / serve my might
/ the dwarf will take his pleasure / with your pretty women / who scorn his
wooing / though love does not smile upon him.
Data are not facts.
Facts are not information.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not truth.
Truth is not wisdom.
Data
beats opinion.
Data-driven
design narrows your attention to incremental improvements rather than quantum
leaps. It makes you think you’re approaching an apex when there may be huge
additional opportunities which lay beyond that point.
Deal
with it
Death
ends a life, not a relationship.
Death is afraid of him because he
has the heart of a lion.
Decadence is deliberate cruelty.
Decency is a relative thing.
Deception is invariably practiced
on the self before others.
Decide on what you think is right,
and stick to it.
Decisions are a lot easier to make
when you know what your values are.
Deep down, he’s very shallow.
Deep pockets don’t sue shallow
ones.
Deeper analysis does not always
lead to keener judgments.
Defeat is worse than death because
you have to live with defeat.
Defects that are invisible to the
knowledgeable may be obvious to the newcomer.
Deformed by fantasy-mutilated by
reality.
Deja new
Delay only compounds mistakes.
Delight turns very quickly to
expectations.
Democracy in meetings is not a
value in itself.
Democracy is like blowing your
nose. You may not do it well, but you
ought to do it yourself.
Democracies don’t make great
products. You need a competent tyrant.
Denial is an ineffective strategy.
Depression doesn't necessarily kill
a person's sense of humor.
Depression is merely anger without
enthusiasm.
Description is more valuable than
metaphor.
Design for the biggest impact.
Design isn’t about how things look;
it’s about how well they work.
Design is not veneer, it is the
fundamental soul of a creation.
Design is the ability to create
something that has significance as well as usefulness.
Desolation is not the same thing as
emptiness, because unlike emptiness, it can fill a space.
Despair
gains its cachet by its uselessness.
Desperatio n,
no t visio n.
Desperation is the raw material of
drastic change. Only those who can leave
behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it’s a matter of choice. It is not a
thing to be waited for, it’s a thing to be achieved.
Destiny, quite often, is a
determined parent.
Detail is the difference between
ordinary and extraordinary.
Develop
an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the
world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and
interesting people. Forget yourself. (Henry Miller)
Die fast and quiet when they
interrogate you or live so long that they are ashamed to hurt you anymore.
Difference between a mishap and a
tragedy. If Gladstone fell into the
Thames, it would be a mishap. If anyone
pulled him out, it would be a tragedy. (Disraeli)
Difference between cheese and
chalk.
Different isn't always better, but
better is always different.
Difficulties exist to be
surmounted.
Dig your well before you're
thirsty.
Digital is like hydrochloric acid,
it burns through everything.
Dijon vu – the same mustard as
before.
Diplomacy is the art of letting
someone else have your way.
Direct your efforts more to
preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for youth.
Directors are like boxers. They
need to know when to hang up the gloves.
Disasters do not simply occur; they
evolve.
Discipline: 1. Do what has to be done
2.
When it has to be done
3.
As well as it can be done
4.
Do it that way all the time
Discipline is a convenient way of
avoiding an adjustment to rapidly changing
circumstances.
Discipline is always worthwhile.
Discipline is just the job of
choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
Discipline yourself.
Discontent is the first necessity
of progress.
Disco veries
are happy accidents.
Disco very
is seeing what everybo dy else has
seen, and thinking what no o ne else has tho ught.
Disorganization is a kind of
anesthesia.
Distance is dead.
Distance
would lend enchantment to the view.
Distress
is soil for growing businesses.
Distributed problems require
distributed solutions.
Diversification neglects
comparative advantage. Specialization is the best way to lower risk.
Do a few of the right things well.
Do a few things very well.
Do a limited number of things very well—not a mile wide and an inch deep.
Do I have to give up me to be loved
by you?
Do it, fix it, learn.
Do it or not. There is no try.
(Yoda)
Do it right the first time-do it very
right the second time.
Do
just once what others say you can't, and you will never pay attention to their
limitations again.
Do less better.
Do not become an archivist of
facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of
their occurrence, persistently search
for the laws which govern them.
Do not become the slave of your
model.
Do not expect justice where might
is right.
Do not feel certain of anything.
Do not forget an old act of
kindness because of a recent dispute.
Do not go gentle into that good
night/Old age should burn and rave at close of day/Rage, rage against the dying
of the light.
Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Do not insult the mother alligator
until you have crossed the river.
Do not keep away from the measure
which has no limit, or from the task which has no end.
Do
not let your fire go out, sparked by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless
swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, and
lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to
reach. Check your road and the nature of
your battle. The world you desired can
be won. It exists, it is real, it is
possible, it is yours. (Ann Rand)
Do not look where you fell, but
where you slipped.
Do not seek to follow in the foot
steps of the masters; seek what they sought.
Do not spoil what you have by
desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among
the things you only hoped for.
Do not understand me too quickly.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a
fly from your friend's forehead.
Do not wait; the time will never be
“just right”. Start where you stand and
work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be
found as you go along.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Do
no t wish evil fo r yo ur
enemy, plan it.
Do one thing every day that scares
you. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Do something unscalably laborious.
Do what’s easy and life is hard. Do
what’s hard and life is easy.
Do what matters to you and someone
else.
Do what you can.
Do you believe in all this
success? It's like wine. You don't believe in wine. You drink
wine.
Do you love life? Then do not squander time. For time is the stuff life is made of.
Do you think you can fart your way
out of it?
Do your
duty and leave the outcome to the gods.
Does anyone have any questions for
my answers?
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Dogs don’t bark at parked cars.
Dogs move through our culture as a
kind of unresolved issue.
Doing business without advertising
is like winking at a girl in the dark; you know what you're doing, but no one
else does.
Doing the right things instead of
doing things right.
Doing well is not enough if you can
do better.
Dollar bills are not the same as
brain cells.
Done is better than perfect
Don’t allow yourself to be defined
by others’ limitations.
Don't argue with the truth.
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
Don’t ask yourself what the world
needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because
what the world needs are people who have come alive.
Don't avoid voiding.
Don't be afraid to make
mistakes. If you take a fall, it's
because you're learning, and that's better than playing it safe. The name of the game is not to be right all
the time. The name of the game is to
win. There's a big difference.
Don’t be afraid to take a big step
if one is indicated. You can’t cross a
chasm in two small jumps.
Don’t be pushed by your problems.
Be led (drawn) by your dreams.
Don’t be reckless with other
people’s hearts.
Don’t blame content. If you put a monkey in a car, it’s not the
car’s fault.
Don't confuse bad management with
destiny.
Don’t confuse frequency with
loyalty. You may have no choice but to use something.
Don’t confuse the headlines with
the trend lines.
Don’t cry because it is over, smile
because it happened.
Don't deprive yourself of the joy
of giving.
Don’t develop anything that you
don’t want to make, and don’t make anything that you can’t sell.
Don’t eat yellow snow.
Don't embarrass the bread.
Don't ever confuse good manners
with agreement.
Don’t ever darken my toilet paper
again.
Don’t ever take down a fence until
you know why it was put up.
Don’t expect empathy from losers.
Don't expect others to listen to
your advice and ignore your example.
Don't expect others to take as much
interest in you as you do yourself.
Don’t fall in love with your model
and forget your mission.
Don’t fake it until you make it.
Fake it til you become it.
Don’t feed the troll in blog space.
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
Don't find fault. Find a solution.
Don’t force
the gates.
Don’t get in front of a ball
rolling down a hill.
Don’t get out of the Trojan Horse
before you’re inside the castle.
Don’t guess, ask.
Don't hold the penny so close to
your eye that you can't see the dollar behind it.
Don't invest too much in a charismatic
leader.
Don’t judge people by their
relatives.
Don’t just think it; ink it.
Don't learn the tricks of the
trade. Learn the trade.
Don’t leave
it to others.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a
great friendship.
Don’t live with your mistakes.
Don’t look backward unless that’s
the direction you’re headed.
Don’t look down, don’t look back.
Don’t look to me for the
answers. All I want you to use me for is
approval.
Don’t major in the minor.
Don’t make ads. Make news.
Don't mistake activity for
achievement.
Don't mistake bad ideas for bad
intentions.
Don’t pay attention to the
critics—don’t even ignore them.
Don’t pee
on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Don’t play
the rooster in front of the wrong house.
Don’t punish the wrong people.
Don’t put a period when God put a
comma.
Don't say yes until I finish
talking.
Don’t spend your time on things you
can’t change. Spend it thinking about what you can.
Don’t stop believing.
Don’t tell me the good news—it
takes care of itself—tell me the bad news.
Don’t think for a minute that power
concedes.
Don't think of me as a monopoly;
think of me as a company that enjoys 100%
customer loyalty.
Don't think of me as your boss, but
as a friend who's always right.
Don't threaten a child: either punish
him or forgive him.
Don't throw away time on useless
resentment or try to see who can hold out longest in stubbornness.
Don’t try
to bend a stubborn heart.
Don’t try to buy low. That’s like trying to catch a knife.
Don’t try to close too fast.
Don’t try to do something cheaply
that shouldn’t be done at all.
Don't try to get to heaven in one
night.
Don't
try to sell the skin of the bear until you have already gone out and killed it.
Don’t try to suck up or even be
nice to your intellectual inferiors.
They’ll only hate you more for it.
Don't use a plan as a major input
to the decision-making process. Use it
mainly to recognize change as it takes place.
Don’t
view your career as a linear progression.
Don’t
want to be with the “cool” people – what to be with your people.
Don't
waste money, don't make bad karma, if life give you lemon tree, then piss on it
every day and take shower!
Don’t waste your energy on the
ugly. Save it for the beautiful.
Don't watch the underclass. It's more likely that the warlords will kill
you.
Don't
worry, the next generation will understand you.
The real challenge is to try to convince your peers.
Doubt of
whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Drama often obscures the real
issues.
Dramatic change often comes as a
response to imminent collapse.
Dreams are necessary to life.
Dreamers never lie.
Dreams with deadlines.
Dress like a bourgeois; think like
a revolutionary.
Drinking water from a fire hose.
Drinking your own bath water.
Drive fast. You’re harder to hit.
Dry shit don’t smell until you kick
it.
Dumb as a sack of hammers.
Dunbar Number: Maximum Number of
Strong Relationships One Person Can Have (150 approx)
DWIM: Do What I Mean.
