A ballet of the obvious.
A beautiful theory killed by some
ugly little facts.
A bird doesn’t sing because it has
an answer; it sings because it has a song. (Maya Angelou)
A bird teaches a fish to swim,
without hatred, without bitterness.
A bond of common laughter.
A bore: someone who deprives you of
solitude without providing you with companionship.
A bovine society in which happy
cows are supposed to produce more milk.
A bowling alley with lipstick.
A brand is a promise. A good brand
is a promise kept.
A briefcase with a mouth.
A brown condom full of walnuts.
(Schwarzenegger)
A bull who carries his china closet
with him.
A bull who carries his own china
shop along with him.
A burning platform
A
"business" that depends on resources that cannot be brought under its
control is actually not a business.
A cabinet full of recipes does not
make you a chef.
A candle loses nothing by lighting
another candle.
A career is about taking risks.
A
chain is easier dragged than pushed.
A certain
sunny shamelessness.
A chain
is no stronger than its weakest link.
A champion hates to lose even more than he
loves to win.
A change of place changes one’s luck.
A
child does not despise the bubble because it burst; he immediately sets to work
to blow another one.
A child should never have to wonder if his
parents love him.
A clarity of vision prompted by the purest
form of greed.
A clown car that drove into a gold
mine.
A collector’s pleasure is always
for reasons which other people don’t grasp. (Proust)
A college professor is someone who
talks in other people’s sleep.
A committee is a dark alley down
which ideas are led to be strangled.
A company is not a museum. It’s not
a religion.
A company is stronger if it is
bound by love rather than fear.
A company is the combined rhythms
of intelligent people rather than any one person's particular expertise or
brains.
A
company should stand for something, fulfill a purpose, and contribute something
useful-hopefully something special, even wonderful-or it shouldn't bother being
a company.
A competitive world has two
possibilities for you. You can
lose. Or, if you want to win, you can
change.
A complicity of needy souls.
A computer does
not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for
literacy. But writing without a pencil
is no particular advantage.
A confusion of the real with the
ideal never goes unpunished.
A constant battle between sharks
and suits.
A continual circulation of lies
among those who are not much in the way of hearing them contradicted will in
time pass for the truth. (Jefferson)
A corporate culture has to be built
on expectations of performance, not rules of
behavior.
A critic is a man who knows the
way, but can't drive the car.
A crowd is not company.
A cult of the average.
A culture hollowed out by the
imperatives of modern life.
A culture is o nly
as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
A culture o f
wo rthless admiratio ns – unjust praise witho ut
purpo se o r
end.
A customer is anyone who can tell
you “no”.
A cynic is a passionate person who
doesn’t want to be disappointed again.
A dancing nation, fickle and
untrue; have oft undone themselves and others too.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A dangerously honest man.
A deception that elevates us is
dearer than a host of low truths. (Pushkin)
A delusional pedigree.
A desk is a dangerous place from
which to watch your business.
A destructive, zero-sum form of
competition has been set in motion that confuses the acquisition of customers
with the building of profitability.
A devaluation is like wetting your
pants. It only feels good for a little
while.
A diamond is a chunk of coal that
made good under pressure.
A
dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the floor.
A different world can’t be built by
indifferent people. (Isben)
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice
before he says nothing.
A disease that persists until you
learn to spell its name.
A divorce is like an amputation;
you survive, but there’s less of you.
A dog is the only thing on earth
that loves you more than he loves himself.
A doer in a world of doubters.
A doubtful friend is worse than a
certain enemy. Let a man be one or the
other,
and then we know how to meet him.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
A dream you dream alone may be a
dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.
A driving ambition is of little use
if you're on the wrong road.
A drowning man will clutch at a
straw.
A drunk keeps no secrets.
A failure is not always a
mistake. It may simply be the best one
can do under the circumstances. The real
mistake is to stop trying.
A fatal taste fo r co mfo rt music.
A few things are impo rtant; mo st
are no t.
A firm is never static - it is
either growing or stagnating.
A fish wouldn’t get in trouble if
it kept its mouth shut.
A fog of protection and rumination
instead of focusing on right now. (Mindfulness)
A fool and his money are soon
parted.
A fool is his own informer.
A fool will lose tomorrow reaching
back for yesterday.
A fool throws a stone in a pond and
ten sages knock themselves out trying to find it.
A friend has the responsibility to
be a witness.
A funeral in the brain.
A gaffe is when a politician tells
the truth.
A general may be sincere, if it
serves his purpose, but his purpose is never sincerity.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
A goal without a plan is just a
daydream.
A good action appears inevitable in
retrospect.
A good day ain't got no rain. A bad day is when I lie in bed and think of
what might have been.
A good deed never goes unpunished.
A good hat can make the difference
between a bimbo and a princess.
A good idea and some hard work can
make a difference.
A good leader knows himself and his
times.
A good leader never blames his
people for his failings.
A good plan, violently executed
right now, is a lot better than a perfect plan executed next week.
A good scare is worth more to a man
than good advice.
A good speech – has a purpose (to
inspire, to explain, to persuade or to exhort) and needs an issue, context,
something to overcome. Delivery and structure only matter if they relate to
purpose. A good speaker has to be believable – the speech must be consistent
with who they are – authentic.
A good toupee looks like a good
toupee.
A great bulimic consuming engine.
A great company begins as art and
ends as science.
A great deal of intelligence can be
invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
A great leader doesn't treat
problems as special. He treats them as
normal.
A great product is deep, indulgent,
complete and elegant. (Dice)
A great speech is like a great
mini-skirt – as short as possible while covering all of the essentials.
A guest for a while sees a mile.
A guilty conscience needs no
accuser.
A happy shrewdness
A hard head makes a soft behind.
A heartwarming confection sunk in
platitudes.
A heightened sense of enlightenment
based on experience.
A high “do” to “say” ratio
A horrible relief
A hospital is not a place where you
go to get well.
A house divided cannot stand.
A household should be of the hill,
not on the hill.
A journey brings us face to face
with ourselves.
A key has no logic to its shape.
Its logic is: it turns the lock.”
A kindness that was also an assertio n
o f po wer. It was so
reassuring to him to be able to
use it.
A lack of talent no longer need be
a detriment to advancement.
A lapsed agnostic
A large brain does not guarantee
large intellect.
A large man has difficulty
exercising his wits fully.
A leader does not need faith in
himself, but he must have faith in the people he is to lead.
A leader is a dealer of hope.
A leader is the one who gets
followed.
A leader must be a dealer in hope.
A lesson taught with humor is
retained.
A liar ought to have a good memory.
A lie can be halfway around the
world before the truth gets its boots on.
A lie is not a lie if the truth
should not be expected.
A lie may fool someone else, but it
tells you the truth about yourself.
A lie repeated often enough becomes
the truth.
A life crowded with incident.
A life lived in fear is a life
half-lived.
A life spent in making mistakes is
not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A life’s ruin of dreams.
A lifetime spent on the border
between chutzpah and hubris.
A lighthouse doesn’t tell you which
way to go, it’s just a signal to keep you off the rocks.
A lighthouse provides illumination
and warning, but not guidance or direction.
A lion at the gate.
A little beauty is preferable to
much wealth.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves
tons of explanation.
A little knowledge is a dangerous
thing.
A little sincerity is a dangerous
thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A little
thing in the hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect. (Aesop)
A live plow horse is still better
than a dead thoroughbred.
A loaded dealer is a loyal dealer.
A
lonely train on a lonely track.
A longing to wander tears my heart
when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
A lot of people try to think up
ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities
of what I can't ignore.
A lot of professionals are
crackpots.
A loveless world is a dead world,
and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and
of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and
wonder of a loving heart.
A magician is an actor
impersonating a magician.
A man can’t know what it’s like to
be a mother.
A man difficult to like and
impossible not to admire.
A man forever voyaging through
strange seas of thought, alone.
A man hears what he wants to hear
and disregards the rest.
A man is known by the company he
keeps.
A man is never more on trial than
in a moment of excessive good fortune.
A man is not finished when he is
defeated. He is defeated when he quits.
A man is not old until regrets take
the place of dreams.
A man must descend very low to find
the force to rise again.
A man of good enough.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns
something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain
A man who is lucky in his enemies.
A man who knows a subject
thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it -
this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of
technical pedagogy.
A man who runs after two rabbits may
not catch any.
A man who strives after an effect
not infrequently achieves it.
A man will be imprisoned in a room
with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to
him to pull rather than push it.
A man with no soul, no inner
convictions, he had the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
A man who cannot protect his
belongings owns nothing.
A man who has no office to go to—I
don’t care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception
A man who is quiet and full and
closed like a well in a village that has been abandoned by all its inhabitants.
A man without paranoia is a man not
in full possession of the facts.
A man’s worst enemy can’t wish him
what he thinks up for himself.
A message often repeated is a
message often remembered.
A minor operation is one performed
on someone else.
A mistake in the making.
A mistake is a mistake. Another mistake is normal. Only the same mistake twice makes you a fool.
A model (or business plan) doesn’t
necessarily get you to the truth.
Eventually math stalls out and something more human – intuition,
experience, wisdom – has to take over.
A moment’s insight is sometimes
worth a life’s experience. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
A mother understands what a child
does not say.
A mother who is really a mother is
never free.
A music publishing company run by
deaf people.
A mystery that holds the promise of
an explanation.
A natural is someone who does his
homework.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can
be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right
man’s brow.
A new learning experience from an
old familiar friend.
A noble goal, shared, is an
incredible source of power.
A nod’s as good as a wink to a
blind man.
A novelty isn’t necessarily an
improvement.
A nuisance may merely be a right
thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
A
painting is many little lies that add up to a great truth.
A painting should not mean - but
be.
A past that was no more important
to me personally than money is to a rock.
A penny saved is just a penny.
A perception, once fixed in the
public imagination, tends to crowd out the possibility of all others.
A person going nowhere can be sure
of reaching his destination.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in
every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A picket fence in front of a tidal
wave.
A piece of instruction comes
quietly but indelibly across….
A place lovelier in theory than in
practice.
A place where sorrow and salvation
exist in a continuum.
A place where you’re never crowded
and never alone.
A player's effectiveness is
directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the
moment. All the preparation is no good
if it can't be put into action at game time.
He must be able to respond in the here and now.
A poet is someone with a genius for
lying and an adoration of the truth.
A poor man’s roast and a rich man’s
death are sniffed far off.
A potent brand becomes a form of
identity in shorthand.
A prayer for the wild at heart kept
in cages.
A prediction in a field where
prediction is not possible is no more than a prejudice.
A principle isn’t really a
principle until it costs you money.
A problem with no solution may not
be a problem – it may be a fact – not to be solved – but to be coped with over
time.
A prodigy is a group enterprise.
A product is not a product unless
it sells.
A product manager can be a shit
funnel or a shit umbrella.
A profession is a personal thing
that man acquires. It cannot be
inherited. It cannot be bequeathed. Only he who, having made the acquisition,
puts to use that knowledge and skill with all his ability and complete
dedication of purpose can be truly called a professional.
(R.E. Onstad)
A professional goes home at night.
A quantification of utility
A quantitative expansion resulting
in a qualitative contraction.
A quiet man with a violent mind.
A prophet is not without honor,
except in his own country and among his own kin, and in his own house.
A real decision is measured by the
fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly
decided. (Tony Robbins)
A relaxed man is not necessarily a
better man.
A romantic comedy has to have
characters grow to some kind of realization that the world is bigger than their
little concerns.
A
sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
A sage on the stage becoming a
guide on the side
A screenplay is essentially a
selling tool. It isn't always the movie
that gets made, but it's always what gets the movie made.
A secret always has a timetable.
A sense of failure is one of the
most insistent feelings held by successful people.
A sense of timing is the mark of
genius.
A
service statio n glaring with wasted
light.
A sham necklace o f bitter brevities o r
false, ho llo w
eulo gy will no t
do fo r
criticism.
A shared goal is an incredible
source of power.
A sharp edge cuts through the
clutter
A ship in dry dock is safe and
secure, but that’s not why ships were built.
A ship ought not to be held by one
anchor, nor life by a single hope.
A sincere effort is all you can
ask.
A
sitdown strike by a bunch of Mexican jumping beans.
A
slab of meat that could sing.
A sinkhole of depraved venality.
A small bank account focuses the
mind.
A snake dies if it can’t slough its
old skin. (Nietzsche)
A software product takes ten
times as much effort as a program written for private use.
A special kind of obscenity
A stare without warmth, without
illusion.
A story we tell ourselves about
what we could have been.
A story well told can change the
world.
A stream cannot rise above its
source.
A strong sense of duty imprisons
you.
A struggle of hope against history.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
A stupid man’s report of what a
clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what
he hears into something he can understand.
A stupid person’s idea of what a
smart person sounds like.
A superior aviator uses his
superior judgment to avoid situations that would require his superior skill.
A surrealist cage: those inside it
are free.
A system that expects failure
doesn’t try very hard to produce anything else. (Gerald Seib)
A terrible resentment builds when
you’ve borrowed money and can’t pay it back.
A thought to turn the mind to pure
Jell-O.
A thousand pens are ready to suggest what you
should do.
A three year old is not half of a
six year old.
A tiger hunts best when he’s hungry
A tipping point, not just a trend.
A transparently false self-cut off
from history, from purpose, from even an iota of authenticity.
A tree is best measured when it's
laid down.
A true friend always stabs you in
the front.
A true master of politics is able
to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put
his very faults. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
A truly great business must have an
enduring moat. (Buffett)
A turtle on a fencepost.
A valiant heart always trumps sheer
talent.
A verbal agreement isn't worth the
paper it's written on.
A vision without resources is a
hallucination.
A visio n
witho ut the ability to execute is pro bably
a hallucinatio n.
A waist is a terrible thing to
mind.
A waste of skin.
A wealth of advice is far less
instructive than a strong example.
A well-balanced Irishman - a man
with chips on both shoulders.
A wide screen just makes a bad film
twice as bad.
A willingness to be held
accountable.
A winning performance always beats
a winning attitude. Give me action, not
motivation.
A wise man will make more
opportunities than he finds.
A woman of valour, who can find? For her price
is far above rubies. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness
is on her tongue.
A woman’s success depends on the
shoes she wears.
A work of art is good if it has
sprung from necessity.
A world of woozy song.
A world shot through with contingency.
A writer is someone for whom
writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A’s hire A’s. B’s hire C’s.
Abdicate: give up hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Ability has nothing to do with
opportunity.
Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there.
Absolute submission can be a form
of freedom.
Absolutely nothing great in the
world has been accomplished without passion.
Abstraction is a type of decadence.
Abuse of power comes as no
surprise.
Acceptable latency
Access is replacing ownership.
Accidents happen to people who are
inadequately prepared.
Accommodation to parental needs
often (but not always) leads to the “as-if personality”. This person develops in such a way that he
reveals only what is expected of him. He
cannot develop and differentiate his true self, because he is unable to live
with it.
Accomplishment entails giving up
the pleasures of the present moment in favor of anticipated triumphs. (This is
an impulse that must be learned.)
Accomplishments bring you
admiration, not love.
Accumulation of power does not
provide security.
Acquisitions:
it’s not what you pay for them; it’s what they cost you. (Tech debt – crap
code)
Act first to desire your own good
opinion of yourself.
Act in haste, repent in leisure
Act like a crazy dog, wear sashes
and other fine clothes, carry a rattle and dance along the roads singing crazy
dog songs after everyone else has gone to bed.
Acting is the greatest leg-opener
in the world.
Acting: You get to live other lives
without the consequences. (DeNiro)
Action causes more trouble than
thought.
Action conquers fear.
Action expresses priorities.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Activity doesn't necessarily yield
achievement.
Actors are alcoholics waiting to
happen.
Actors are idols. Heroes are those with something at stake.
Add little to little and there will
be a big pile.
Adding manpower to a late software
project makes it later. (Brooks Law)
Adding years to life is science’s
job; adding life to those additional years is education’s task.
Addition by subtraction.
Admitting you’re an asshole is the
first step.
Adoption is a strong component of
an innovation’s success.
Adventure is something you seek for
pleasure or profit – for the illusion of being more alive than ordinarily but
experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that
finally overtakes you.
Advertising is necessarily a trick,
whereas art is not a trick; it’s an illusion that tells the truth.
Advertising is like making love to
a 500 pound gorilla -- you don't stop when you
want to.
Advertising is the cost of being
boring.
Advertising is the plastic surgery
of business.
Advertising is the rattling of a
stick inside a swill bucket.
Advertising was the dot.com’s
storefront.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology
is for the birds.
After a first true love, you never
love like that again in your life.
After learning the tricks of the
trade, many of us think we know the trade.
After
such sweetness beyond memory. He who held me so dear, to yet betray! Oh! I have
loved him too much not to hate.
After the ship has sunk, everyone
knows how she might have been saved.
After the third call, assume the
rumor is true.
After things go from bad to worse,
the cycle repeats itself.
After you finish being smart in
this business, you also have to be lucky.
Age and treachery will overcome
youth and skill. (Triumph Over)
Age brings wisdom but from youth
comes truth.
Age cannot wither her.
Age is a very high price to pay for
maturity.
Agoraphobia - too much openness.
Ain’t but two kinda people in the
wurl. The ones that gives and the ones
that takes, and know’n what ya gonna be is the difference between bein’ a
player or suckuh.
Algorithm and millennial, hand in
hand
Alive one hour, dead the next
All bad poetry is sincere.
All believing is essentially
betting – since we cannot know what’s right or wrong – we make bets based on
experience.
All blues singers are great liars.
All business success is based o n two
things: building relatio nships and
patience.
All cats are grey in the dark.
All change is not growth, as all
movement is not forward. (Glasgow)
All
charming people have something to conceal, usually their mainstream dependence
on the appreciation of others.
All cruel people describe themselves
as paragons of frankness.
All damaged people are dangerous
because they have no pity. They know
that others can survive, as they did.
All dat glitters ain’t gold.
All evolution, cultural as well as
biological, is a process of continuous adaptation to unforeseen events, to
contingent circumstances which could not have been forecast.
All experience is great providing
you live through it. If it kills you, you’ve gone too far.
All farewells should be sudden.
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
(B. Diller)
All glory is fleeting.
All good things come from detail.
All great discoveries are founded
in small thefts.
All great ideas ultimately
degenerate into work.
All great wars are lost in the
middle.
All happy families are alike and
every unhappy family is unhappy according to its own ways.
All I have to do is finish the
game. I’ll finish it, maybe not standing
up, but I’ll finish it.
All I want is an unfair advantage.
All labor has dignity.
All life is a game of power.
All living things harbor an impulse
to economize, to accomplish more with less.
All men mean well.
All music is folk music. I never
heard a horse sing a song. (Louis Armstrong)
All my friendships are becoming
hardships.
All my possessions for a moment of
time.
All
new ideas pass through three stages.
First, they are ridiculed.
Second, they are violently opposed.
Third, they are accepted as being self-evident.
All of the moves; none of the
courage-afraid to throw a punch that might land.
All of these you are
And each is partly you
And none of them is false
And none is wholly true. (Stephen
Vincent Benet)
All of this is like tears in the
rain.
All of us are smarter than any of
us. (CRM database)
All of us, whether we are in this
business or not, have little voices that tell us we’re not good enough, and we
don’t deserve it.
All our “isms” are “wasms.”
All our knowledge has its origins
in our perceptions.
All our knowledge is about the past
and all our decisions are about the future.
All progress depends on the
unreasonable man.
All quarrels are not petty.
All relationships are
transactional. Even love. Love may be the most transactional relationship of
all.
All sink, no plumbing
All sorrows can be borne.
All strategies are vulnerable to
reality, expected and unexpected.
All that glitters is not gold.
All the blessings we enjoy are the
fruits of labor, toil, self-denial and study.
All the characteristics of a bad
stutterer without the stutter itself.
All the drive and ambition in the
world is of little use if you’re on the wrong road.
All the hope and idealism in the
world will not suffice without a thought-out plan of action.
All the knowledge I possess anyone
else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
All the passions produce
prodigies. A gambler is capable of
watching and fasting, almost like a saint.
All the slow rabbits have been
caught.
All the thoughts of a turtle are
turtle.
All the wood behind one
arrowhead. (Focus)
All the world in your pants.
All things being equal, fat people
use more soap.
All things come to those who wait.
All things continue until they
stop.
All things
excellent are as difficult as they are rare (Faulkner)
All things
flourish where you turn your eyes. (eye
of master)
All things with a vengeance.
All too often, people believe that
creativity leads to innovation. It
doesn’t.
All truth passes through three
stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. And third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
All
truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover
them. (Galileo)
All we have to do is be the person
we say we are
All wise negotiations mean settling
for what you can get right now rather than what you want one day.
All women become like their
mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does.
That’s his.
All work is creative work if done
by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by someone who repeats in
uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others.
All writers, I think, are to one
extent or another damaged. Writing is
our way of repairing ourselves. I was
filling a hole in myself.
All writing is therapy. To some extent all writers seek their craft
to heal a wound in themselves, to make themselves whole.
All you really have that matters
are feelings.
All your knowledge is about the
past and all your decisions are about the future. (Wilson GE)
Allow children to be happy in their
own way, for what better way will they ever find?
Alone we can do so little; together
we can do so much.
Almost everything is easier to get into
than out of.
Almost only counts in horseshoes
and love.
Alter your expectations.
Although the wages of sin may be
death, it’s nice work if you can get it.
Although we may all be in trouble,
at least we’re not in this mess alone.
Always aim to be a better version
of yourself.
Always assume it will take twice as
long and be twice as hard as your worst possible dreams.
Always be in a state of becoming.
Always be in beta.
Always be the only person who can
sign your check.
Always bet on the best in people
Always count the change back to the
customer
Always disappointed, never
surprised.
Always fight your battles on
familiar ground.
Always give wrong directions to a
contrarian.
Always go to other people's
funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Always have your bags packed.
Always hearing things for the first
time.
Always improve the average in team
building
Always partner up; never partner
down.
Always suspect a man who affects
great softness of manner, an unruffled evenness of temper, and an enunciation
studied, slow and deliberate. These
things are all unnatural, and bespeak a degree of mental discipline into which
he that has no purpose of craft or design to answer cannot submit to drill
himself. The most successful knaves are
usually of this description. They affect
the innocence of the dove, which they have not, in order to hide the cunning of
the serpent, which they have.
Always remember to pillage before
you burn.
Always striving, never arriving.
Always take a job that’s too big
for you.
Always the years together, always
the hours.
Always tough; sometimes fair.
Always try to see your opponent's
cards.
Ambient Intelligence – An unseen
fog of digital knowingness.
Ambition - ambition to do - ambition
to be.
Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the
wrong reasons, just like drugs.
Ambition is just as dangerous as
complacency.
Ambitio n
is like the sea wave which the mo re
yo u drink, the mo re yo u
thirst. (Tennyso n)
Ambitio n
is o ne o f
the mo re ungo vernable
passio ns o f
the human heart. The lo ve o f po wer is insatiable and unco ntro llable.
America is like a melting pot: the
people at the bottom get burned and the scum floats to the top.
America’s power in the world comes
not from the walls we build, but from the doors we open; and it comes not from
tearing down success, but from building up opportunity. (Bloomberg)
Americans aren’t going to trust a
party to defend America if it can’t defend itself.
Among the first signs of serious
problems is an abandonment of perspective, a feeling that one is unique in his
troubles. Everyone has the same
problems. The only differences are
degree and the richness of the mix.
Amusing, not doubt, yet hardly
moving further below the surface than a paper boat in a bath tub and, like the
boat, ever in imminent danger of becoming a shapeless, sodden mess.
An entrepreneur is someone who
dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make the dreams come
true.
An unseen fog of digital
knowingness.
Anger usually trumps suspicion.
Angergy
An actor can’t always act –
sometimes he has to work.
An actress is something more than a
woman and an actor is something less than a man.
An administration, like a machine,
does not create. It carries on.
An apology not accompanied by
change is an insult.
An artist is his own fault.
An artist’s work develops out of
need, compassion and commitment.
An economist is an expert who will
know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday did not happen today.
An economy of attention.
An elephant’s tampon.
An elite is inevitable.
An endless road to getting to the
end.
An enemy whose mind is distressed
is an uncommonly vulnerable enemy.
An entire society ruled by what
people want, and what they do to get it.
An era ends when its dreams are
exhausted.
An eternity of sweat, tears - and
toil.
An evasion of self-awareness.
An expert is someone more than 50
miles from home, who has no responsibility for implementing the advice he
gives, and shows slides.
An explanation of cause is not a
justification by reason.
An extroverted engineer is one who
stares at your shoes instead of his own when he’s talking to you.
An idea isn't responsible for the
people who believe it.
An idea that isn’t dangerous is
hardly worth calling an idea at all.
An ignorant man will always be the
first to be heard.
An imposer: one about whom one worries whether his
response to one's next remark will be a smile or a snarl.
An industry not based on a
developmental model (we will get better and better), but on radical
obsolescence—what you’re doing now will be meaningless tomorrow.
An insight is an observation that
is retrospectively self-evident
An institution is simply the
lengthened shadow of a single individual.
An institution that stands for
nothing will fall for anything.
An intellectual in show business is
like the smartest bear in the zoo.
An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interest.
An invisible presence—like a fume
or a scent.
An iron girder in a house of cards.
An oak without wind doesn’t grow
strong.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a
pound of cleverness.
An ounce of momentum is worth a
pound of acceleration.
An oxygen-free environment which
doesn’t support life.
An uncommon amount of common sense.
Analepsis – flashbacks. Prolepsis – flash-forwards.
And don’t look back, something
might be gaining on you.
And how the same inexorable price
must still be paid for the same great purchase.
(Whitman)
And if we can’t quite get there, at
least we can leave another marker along the way
And in the night of death, hope
sees a star, and listening to love hears the rustle of a wing.
And it was to this city… that I
always knew I must return, for it was the mistress of one’s wildest hopes.
And, like a dog at a dinner party,
he won't go away.
And so, he slowly, systematically,
and hopelessly sat down and shut up.
And the days dwindle down to a
precious few – September… November… and these few precious days I’ll spend with
you.
And the rest, as they say, was
mystery.
And the rest, the children, the
country kitchen, the domestic bliss, we leave to others, who will have
different regrets.
And then the day came, when
the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
(Anaïs Nin)
And they, since they were not the
ones dead, turned to their affairs.
And think not you can direct the
course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy directs your course.
Anytime anyone has an idea, five
other people elsewhere have the same idea simultaneously.
And the days dwindle down to a
precious few – September…November…and these few precious days I’ll spend with
you.
And those who are successful,
Be always on your guard;
Success walks hand in hand with
failure,
Along Hollywood Boulevard.
And when you have reached the
mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when your walls come tumbling
down, I will always be around.
Anger is not cathartic, and you
won’t break a losing streak by exacting revenge on your perceived enemies.
Angergy
Another impossibility is to expect
another’s heart to accommodate your own desires and needs.
Another victory like this, and we
are lost.
Anticipation is essential. You
can’t wait for opportunities to become obvious.
Antisocial behavior increases in
proportion to the excuses that intellectuals make for it.
Any artist has only one revolution
in him.
Any clear way, though it lead to
death, is preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.
Any day above ground is a good day.
Any day you're not moving the ball
forward, it's moving backwards.
Any event, once it has occurred,
can be made to appear inevitable by any competent journalist or historian.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Any group that would gather to hear
a politician speak wouldn’t know a good speech if they heard one.
Any man who's extremely successful
and takes no pleasure in it is a man after my own heart.
Any person hired by a bureaucracy
to respond to public complaints has no power to remedy them.
Any problem you can solve with a
check isn’t a problem, it’s an expense.
Any rational person would give up.
Any repeated actions contain deep
psychological truth.
Any Sale
is Better than A Slow and Painful Expiration
Any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Any surplus is immoral.
Any worthwhile goal is difficult to
accomplish.
Anybody who gets away with
something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
Anybody who has survived his
childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
Anyone can deal with madness - it's
reality that's impossible.
Anyone can hold the helm when the
sea is calm.
Anyone can steer the ship when the
seas are calm.
Anyone have any questions for my
answers? (Henry Kissinger)
Anyone in an environment that is
not preparing him or her for a tougher future should move out fast.
Anyone who angers you conquers you.
Anyone who closes his eyes to the
past is blind to the present.
Anyone who believes that he or she
is self-made has a very selective memory.
Anyone who stays somewhere for
someone else ends up alone.
Anyone who thinks he’s
almost there doesn’t understand how long the journey is.
Anyone who tries to make
a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing
about either.”
(McLuhan)
Anything can be a drug if you love
it.
Anything can happen now that we've
slid over the bridge...anything at all.
Anything can happen to anybody at
anytime as long as you find something you’re devoted to.
Anything that’s not a clear winner
is a loser - no living dead.
Anything will fit a naked man.
Anything worth doing at all is
worth doing to excess.
Anywhere from soon to shortly after
the end of life as we know it.
Apostle of the obvious
Aquarium story—rocks, stones,
gravel, sand, water - can’t put the big things in last.
Architects of the future
Are there wounds in the past so
strong that they'll pull you back no matter what you do?
Are you happy you joined the
circus?
Are you still important? Not to myself.
Are you tired of living another
man's dream?
Are you with us or in our way?
Ars
est celare artem / It is (true) art to conceal art.
Ars
longa, vita brevis / Art is long, life is short.
Arsonists masquerading as fireman.
Art, after all, only embellishes
truth. It is not truth itself.
Art begets certainties that
biography can’t confirm.
Art begins in honesty.
Art dealers are like surfboard
riders. You can’t make a wave. If there are no waves, you’re dead. But the best
dealers know which of the oncoming waves are the right ones.
Art does not lie down on the bed
that is made for it. It runs away as
soon as one says its name. It loves to
be incognito. Its best moments are when
it forgets what it is called.
Art has no other object than to set
aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are
conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality
from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
Art is a boy's name.
Art
is a form of prayer.
Art
is a language, not just what it is.
Art is a lie that enables us to see
the truth.
Art
is a way of getting in touch with one’s own insanity.
Art is about making something out
of nothing and selling it.
Art is like grand music, an eternal
act of generosity.
Art
is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Art is not a profession which can
be mastered by study.
Art is not a thing – it is a way.
Art is not an end in itself. It's a means of addressing humanity.
Art is not optional.
Art is not truth. Art is a lie that helps you understand the
truth.
Art is the only way to run away
without leaving home.
Art is the signature of
civilizations.
Art, like morality, consists of
drawing the line somewhere.
Art makes each of us whole through
individual expressions of universal human experiences.
Art makes singularly unglamorous
demands: integrity, sacrifice and discipline.
Art serves us best precisely at
that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we now know
more than we knew before, when we feel we have-by some manner of leap-
encountered the truth. That, by the
logic of art, is always worth the pain.
Art suffers at the hands of
reality.
Art tells you things you don’t know
you need to know until you know them.
Artificial intelligence is no match
for natural stupidity.
As a
general rule, I think it’s a good plan to always have more dreams than memories
As a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he.
As a practical matter, he had no
past, only a future.
As focused as a bullet in flight.
As always, victory finds a hundred
fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
As long as I am unforgiven
As far as I am pushed away
As much as life seems less than
living
I still try.
As long as you act as if you're
coming from behind, you have a shot at staying ahead.
As much chance as butter against
the sun.
As soon as you start thinking about
the beginning, it’s the end.
As the camel falls to its knees,
more knives are drawn.
As
the frequency of expression grows, the force of each expression diminishes
As
the monkey said (as he was backing away after making love to the skunk): “I’ve
enjoyed as much of this as I can stand”.
As
the number of news outlets expands, it is said, attention spans shrink; only
the fast and the pithy will survive.
As the twig is bent, so is the tree
inclined.
As they say in poker, if you're in
the game 30 minutes and don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
As tho' to breathe were life. (Tennyson)
As useful as cups of air to a dead
man.
As we've gotten more open-minded,
we've gotten more closed-hearted.
As you make your bed, so you must
lie upon it.
Ask for information, get
investment. Ask for investment, get advice.
Ask for the order. When the
customer says “yes”, stop talking.
Ask not about things which, if made
plain to you, may cause you trouble.
Ask questions until you understand
the answers.
Ask whether you’re working off your
“in” basket or whether the organization is working off your “out” basket. If it’s the former, you’re reacting rather
than leading the organization toward its goal.
Ask
your doctor for a reason to take it.
Asked
which of his works is his masterpiece, he answered, “my next one.”
Asking a writer about critics is
like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Asking me to play golf would be
like asking me to drive over to the town dump and separate the garbage.
Asking my husband to help me write
a song would be like asking him to salt my food to his taste.
Asses and elbows.
Assholes are assholes basically
forever.
Assume nothin'.
Assume nothing and follow up on
everything.
At a time when courage counted
most, I lived among the bravest of men.
At first, dreams seem impossible;
then improbable; and then inevitable.
At just the right moment, he was
always there.
At least her tattoos were all
spelled right.
At present we are combating a trend. But this trend will die out, superseded by
others, and then the way we are arguing against it will no longer be
understood; people will not see why all this needed saying.
At some point, you need a big
building in a bad neighborhood.
At some point in his life, he
didn’t want to feel, he just wanted to be successful.
At the core of true happiness is
the wisdom not to ask for too much.
At the end of the day, as parents,
you are your kids’ audience. They are not meant to be yours. (Bruce Springsteen)
At the end of the day, politics is
about the ability to inflict pain.
At the end of your career, the things you will value the most (apart from
family) are those you’ve done for and given to others
At the speed of now
At the top, life seeks expression
through particular individuals.
At times inactivity is preferable
to mindless functioning.
Athletes must fail and must fail as
early as possible. Because in the
beginning, they get by on their talent alone.
But with failure comes thought, and greatness needs the combination of
talent and mind.
Anfall är bästa försvar
.. Attack is the best form of defense.
Attention is the hard currency of
cyberspace.
Attention must be paid.
Attention must be paid for.
Attitude can change adversities into
assets.
Attitude is more important than
facts.
Aurora comes to terms with an
unrequited love that cannot penetrate the barriers of self-absorption.
Authenticity reads on camera.
Average is over.
Avoid backing anyone into a corner.
No one is more dangerous than someone who cannot retreat.
Avoid biting when a simple growl
will do.
Avoid interruptive thinking.
Avoid the belief that dealing is
preferable to working.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the
long run than outright exposure. Life is
either a daring adventure or nothing.
Avoiding the potholes is cheaper
and smarter than buying (getting a good deal) on new tires.
Awaken us from our habitual
indifference
Awards are merely badges of
mediocrity.
Awe is a great motivator.
Axe enters the woods: upon seeing it, the trees said, look, the
handle is one of us.
