Nail it;
then scale it.
Naive
listening.
Nature
does not evolve toward goals but away from constraints.
Nature
never does anything in vain.
Necessity
is a hard nurse, but she raises strong children.
Necessity
never made a good bargain.
Neck Ups
– If you’re happy about it, could you please inform you face about it?
Need to
manage both the inputs and the outputs.
Need to
market thru our customers, not to our customers.
Nefarious
business – creating the appearance of success in order to attract actual
success
Negotiating
is a way of saying, “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
Neither
abstinence nor excess ever renders one happy.
Neither
life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Never a
better friend. Never a worst enemy.
Never a
prophet in your own land.
Never
accept a “no” answer from someone who is not capable of saying “yes.”
Never
answer a question until it's asked.
Never
argue with a fool. People might not know
the difference.
Never
assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.
Never
attribute to a conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence.
Never
attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Never
argue with an idiot – the people watching may not be able to tell the
difference.
Never
assume that the other guy will never do something that you would never do.
Never
awake me when you have good news to announce because with good news, nothing
presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is
not an instant to be lost.
Never be
too sure you're smarter than the gorilla.
Never
become depressed nor even ponder nor develop the slightest stresses and
anxieties over past defeats . . . get even.
Never being
happy isn't the same as being unhappy.
Never
believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever had.
Never bet
on a loser because you think his luck is bound to change.
Never buy
a car you can’t push.
Never
challenge a lion in his own den.
Never
complain, never explain.
Never
confuse spit and raindrops.
Never
contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Never cut
what can be untied.
Never
deal with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Never
deny your convictions for the sake of peace and quiet.
Never
deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
Never
ever forget your roots.
Never
fear being vulgar, just boring.
Never
feel thaty you are the one who must fill every silence in a negotiation.
Never get
angry except on purpose.
Never
grift on the way out.
Never
have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Never
hire a clown unless you own the face.
Never
hire anyone you can’t fire.
Never in
the history of show business has the gap between amateur and professional been
so small.
Never
interfere with your enemy when he's in the process of destroying himself.
Never
interrupt when you're being flattered.
Never
invest in anything that keeps you awake at night.
Never
kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
Never
laugh at anyone's dreams.
Never
lean on the weird.
Never
leave serendipity to chance.
Never
leave well enough alone.
Never
let a vegetable come between you and a friend.
Never let
somebody waste your time, twice.
Never let
success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
Never let
well enough alone.
Never let
your brains go to your head.
Never
look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Never
love a company because the company will never love you back.
Never met
a bubble we couldn’t burst.
Never
mind the dog, beware of the owner.
Never
mistake a clear view for a short distance.
Never
negotiate with a hard-on.
Never o ffend peo ple
with style when yo u can o ffend them with substance.
Never
play leapfro g with a unico rn.
Never
promise more than you can perform.
Never
pull into a parking space that you can't back out of.
Never
rely on an opponent to make a mistake.
Never
ruin an apology with an excuse.
Never say
"oops" in the operating room.
Never
seek to know what the camel thinks of the camel driver.
Never
send a man to do a boy's job.
Never
send to know for whom the bell tolls. It
tolls for thee.
Never
settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
Never
shame to hear what you have nobly done.
Never
sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than yours.
Never
take a front row seat at a bris.
Never
take advice from someone who doesn’t have to live with the consequences.
Never
take the last dollar off the table
Never
tell a lie, then you don't have to remember what you said.
Never
tolerate commitments in words instead of in spirit.
Never
trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Never try
to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
Never
underestimate the ability of an adversary to cause you grief in the future.
Never
underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Never
underestimate the power of the people in the room.
Never up,
never in.
Never
wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty,
but only the pig enjoys it.
New isn’t
necessarily better; new is just what often sells.
New
meaning flows to fill the emptiness hollowed out by devastation.
New
medical technologies, too attractive to forbid and too expensive to make
generally available, will exacerbate the inequalities that now exist within and
between societies.
New
technologies are borne with many enemies and few friends.
Newbiquitous
News
shouted loudly enough from the rooftops will not always fall on deaf ears.
Next to
knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to
know when to forego an advantage. (Disraeli)
Next to
love is the desire for love. (It’s the
vulnerability to loss that is the coefficient of the depth of feeling) (Wallace Stevens poem about New Haven)
Nice
isn’t a sufficient quality for friendship; but it’s a necessary one.
Nietzsche: So long as you are praised, think only that
you are not yet on your own path, but on that of another.
Night
brings our troubles to the light rather than banishing them.
Night is
the time of creation.
Nine
women can’t make a baby in one month.
90 day
wonders. After 90 days, you wonder why
you did the deal?
90% of
everything is crap.
90% of
science is drudgery.
Ninety-five
percent of the show is just being there on time.
No act of
kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
No amount
of technology can ever turn a bad story into a good one.
No art
comes from the conscious mind.
No balls,
no babies (Cuban)
No battle
plan survives contact with the enemy.
No
corporation gets hit by the future between the eyes; they always get it in the
temple.
No detail
is small.
No
disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is
lacking.
No doctor
can cure the blind in mind.
No eulogy
is due to a man who simply does his duty and nothing more. (St. Augustine)
No front,
no back, no time.
No good
deed goes unpunished.
No great
artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an
artist. (Oscar Wilde)
No great
marching orders come from data.
No hills
without gravestones, no valleys without shadows.
No
hugging, no learning.
No idea
is a bad idea until the data prove so.
No
individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
No one
among the gifted should be allowed to rise to a position of influence without
knowing what it is like to fail.
“No” is a
complete sentence.
“No” is
never an answer.
No great
marching orders come from data.
No law of
economics says that technological advances have to benefit everyone or even
most people. (Prior reliance on anecdotes)
No man
can serve two masters.
No man
can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
No man
has ever listened himself out of a job.
No man is
happier than his wife.
No man is
more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
No man is
more than another unless he does more than another. (Cervantes)
No man
loves the man he fears.
No man
matures after age 11.
No man
may avoid his fate. (Kismet)
No man
ought to look a given horse in the mouth.
No man
was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
No man's
knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
No matter
how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up.
No matter
how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
No matter
how golden an age, there will always be someone who complains that it looks too
yellow.
No matter
how dark his night or how deep his wounds…
No matter
how many operations a brain surgeon watches, I'd rather have someone who has
done it.
No matter
how much you may care, some people are just assholes.
No
matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
No
matter what you have to sell, you've got to sell satisfaction.
No matter
who you think you are, back in the gym, it's always the same struggle. One hundred pounds will always be one hundred
pounds. It will never give you a break.
No one
can help you. A writer is alone with it,
by the nature of it.
No one
can lead other people except by showing them a future. A leader is a merchant of hope.
No one
can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one
can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he never experienced.
No one
changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
No one
courts fame out of happiness.
No one
does anything for anyone else without some notion of reward.
No one
ever caught a train without missing the previous one.
No o ne
ever wasted less time reaching his prime.
epithet
No o ne fo rgets where he buried the hatchet.
No o ne
gets to see the Wizard, no t no o ne. No t
no ho w.
No one
gives me credit for hating myself.
No one is
completely worthless. You can always
serve as a bad example.
No one is
more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the
problem.
No one
man's mind is sufficient to grasp the entire truth.
No one
person should walk behind two donkeys.
No one
remembers or cares who was first, only who is best.
No one
roots for Goliath.
No one
wants to be first, but everyone wants to be second.
No one
sits Baby in a corner.
No one
with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well-adjusted, they are never
driven to achieve anything.
No one’s
ever held up a bank with a dildo.
No player
ever does anything on a football field that isn’t dependent on some other
player. The individual achievements are often,
in effect, hidden in plain sight.
No
prisoners.
No
prophet is accepted in his own town.
No
snowflake falls in an inappropriate place.
No
statement, theological or otherwise, should be made, which cannot be made in
the presence of burning children.
No stunt
works twice.
No such
thing as a data magician.
No
sympathy for losers.
No true artist will to lerate
fo r o ne
minute the wo rld as it is.
No two
persons will agree on everything unless one of them is not listening.
No
unhappy thing has ever happened to me in my life that was not my own fault, and
I attribute nearly all of the good fortune I have had to coincidence.
No victor
believes in chance.
No voice
should be louder than the battle.
Nobel
Prize winner-chauffeur on tour. (Panetta)
Nobody
can ever quite separate the dancer from the dance.
Nobody
else can make you happy.
Nobody
ever asked to be happy later.
Nobody
ever went into show biz who had a happy childhood.
Nobody
cares less about your ego than a stopwatch.
Nobody
ever won a horse race by yelling “Whoa!”.
Nobody
expects more from us than we do.
Nobody
goes there anymore-it’s too busy.
Nobody
has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. (Zelda
Fitzgerald)
Nobody is
indispensable, especially you.
Nobody
out-Geschreis me.
Nobody
said you couldn’t, but nobody thought you would.
Nobody
wins unless everybody wins.
Nodding
your head doesn’t row the boat.
None of
them came in with a charmed life, none of them left with a charmed life.
None of
us is as smart as all of us.
Nostalgia
is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia
kills happiness.
Not a
lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.
Not all
bad comes from bad.
Not all
jobs are the same, but all jobs are important.
Not all
those who wander are lost.
Not all
who wander are lost.
Not as if
by magic but by his own gift.
Not
because they wished it, but because they willed it.
Not
because we may not grow old together, but because we may not grow old at all.
Not
believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Not
college-ready; innovation-ready.
Not even
death can stop true love.
Not
everybody can live upstream.
Not every
end is a goal. The end of a melody is
not its goal; however, if the melody had not reached its end, it would also not
have reached its goal.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Not
everything that is faced can be changed at once, but nothing can be changed
until it is faced.
Not
everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Not
everything worth doing is worth doing well.
Not Good.
Never Boring.
Not
hands-on but body-on.
Not
having a good father opens you up to what fatherhood stands for, makes you
appreciate it with the intensity of emotion that can come only when you are
aware of the risk.
Not
innovation, but integration. The data has always been there – using it is the
challenge
Not
knowing is not an excuse.
Not
knowing the conventions of the game turns out to be an advantage.
Not only
does the emperor have no clothes, he has bad skin.
Not only
is the past not dead, it isn't even past.
Not only
must we be good, but we must also be good for something. (Thoreau)
No t so
much brilliant as inevitable.
No t so
much great pieces o f go o d fo rtune that seldo m
happen, but little advantages that o ccur
every day.
Not to
know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
Not to
know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child.
Not to
want to care is a much more passionate feeling than not caring.
Not too
many people understand simplicity: they
equate it with no good.
Not very
young, but sufficiently immature.
Not
wrong, prematurely right.
Nothing
can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.
Nothing
can be older than its creator.
Nothing
can replace a live orchestra, flesh on catgut.
Nothing
can stop the man with the right attitude from achieving his goal, but nothing
on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
Nothing
draws people like a crowd, virtual or otherwise.
Nothing
fails like success.
Nothing
gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Nothing
good ever came of peaking too early.
Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing
happens in this world until someone sells something to somebody.
Nothing
happens unless first a dream.
Nothing
happens until after the 8th call.
Nothing
happens until somebody sells something.
Nothing
happens without salesmen who are willing to sell your product.
Nothing
in fine print is ever good news.
Nothing
is as burdensome as a secret.
Nothing
is as devastating as a dream which comes true.
Nothing
is so corrupting as a great idea whose time is past.
No thing is so
ho peless as a scheme o f merriment.
No thing is ever definitely wo n
by man
Neither
his strength / Nor his weakness nor his heart
And when
he thinks / . . he holds tight his joy
He
crushes it.
Nothing
is ever finished.
Nothing
is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Nothing
is impossible for the man who will not listen to reason.
Nothing
is just one thing.
Nothing
is made better or worse by praise.
Nothing
is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one we have.
Nothing
is more difficult than the art of maneuver.
What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most
direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.
Nothing
is so difficult as not deceiving yourself.
Nothing
is more fatal than a dodge. Wrongs will be
forgiven, sufferings and losses will be forgiven or forgotten…but anything like
a trick will always rankle.
Nothing
is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Nothing
is so good as it seems beforehand.
Nothing
is so responsible for the good old days as a bad memory.
Nothing
is so simple that it can't be misunderstood.
Nothing
is the future forever.
Nothing
is to be done later than now.
Nothing
is true. Everything is permitted.
Nothing
made sense and neither did everything else.
Nothing
more enhances authority than silence.
Nothing
moves by itself, unless it's going downhill.
Nothing
prepares you for the first time.
Nothing
prevents me from being a writer except laziness.
Nothing
puts fear in people faster than an overabundance of frogs.
No thing speaks lo uder
than co de.
No thing so
co nveys a sense o f the infinite as human stupidity.
Nothing
stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
Nothing
stops a bullet like a job.
Nothing
succeeds like the appearance of success.
Nothing
was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Nothing
will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Nothing's
lost forever. In this world, there is a
kind of painful progress. Longing for
what we've left behind and dreaming ahead.
Novels
are written for people who enjoy reading and screenplays are written for people
who hate reading.
Novelty
is not a proxy for value.
Now is
not the time to go wobbly.
Now that
my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul
rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
Now the
trumpet summons us again.
Now,
though numberless fates of death beset us which no mortal can escape or avoid,
let us go forward together, and either we shall give honor to one another, or
another to us.
Numbers
don’t lie, but they don’t tell the whole truth.
