C
Cable
is a grudge buy.
Calculated authenticity is the coin
of the realm.
Call it my “don’t spend your
retirement in jail” plan.
Call no man lucky until he’s dead.
Calm is more conducive to
creativity than anxiety.
Campaigning is about
you only insofar as it’s about what you can do for others.
Campaigns are only relevant on the
margins.
Can you be so open-minded that your
brains fall out?
Can you find a little hole for
yourself?
Canary in
the Gold Mine (Kids =)
Can’t Quit, Not Dead!
Can’t speck
ter know all ‘bout eve’ything ‘fo’ you git some res’.
Can’t tell my courage from my
desperation (Bruce Springsteen)
Can't tell the salt from the wound.
Capability
times will = deterrence.
Capital
goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is
like Christianity without Hell.
Care more than others think is
wise.
Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think is
practical.
Expect more than others think is
possible.
Careers open to the talented. La carrier ouverte aux les talents.
(Bonaparte –meritocracy)
Caring can cost a lot, but not
caring always costs more.
Cash and bury.
Cash flow is more important than
your mother.
Cash is a fact -- profit is an
accounting opinion.
Cash is oxygen.
Catching up with the past
Cater-corner
Cats are just tiny women in cheap
fur coats.
Caught between sadness and euphoria
Cause die-hard terrorists to die
hard.
‘Cause you can see a future that I
can’t.
Caution hasn’t killed me yet.
"Celebrated, all-points,
fuck-up."
Celebrity gossip is a guilty
pleasure.
Celebrity
is a mask that eats into the face.
Challenges are what
make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Challenges of the present –
promises of the future.
Challenges that will require
transformative, not traditional, changes.
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions have something deep inside them-a
desire, a dream, a vision. They have to
have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have
the skill and the will. But the will
must be stronger than the skill.
Champions keep playing until they
get it right. (Billie J. King)
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Chance is random. Fate is not. Fate
has a plan and fate wins in the end. But chance allows you to think that you
are escaping fate for a little while.
Chance is the fool's word for fate.
Chance remains forever untamable
for fate does what it wants to us and to the world around us. The universe is governed by laws that we will
never quite fully understand.
Change: you cannot step twice into
the same river, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.
Change before you have to.
Change comes in waves – better to
be on top of the wave than under it or swept away entirely.
Change creates incompetence.
Change doesn’t happen overnight.
Change everything, except your
loves.
Change favors the connected mind.
Change happens at the edges and
moves toward the center.
Change is always expensive. You
either pay to achieve it or you pay for not having made it.
Change is certain but progress is
not.
Change is inevitable, except from a
vending machine.
Change is inevitable; growth is
optional.
Change is just a word without the
strength, will and experience to make it happen.
Change is valuable for its own
sake, whether or not it turns out to be an improvement.
Change
never comes as fast as we want it.
Change
occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is
not.
Change starts at the edges and
moves toward the center.
Change sucks, but irrelevance is
worse.
Change takes place in an instant;
it's the resistance to change that takes time to overcome.
Change the
“who” to “what”.
Change your
ideas of what you want.
Changing
your perceptions, exceeding your expectations.
Character counts. Family matters.
Character – giving up on perfection
without giving up on hope.
Character is destiny.
Character is determined at the
point a man is doing what he likes best.
Character is expressed thru loyalty
and mutual commitment.
Character is like a tree and
reputation like its shadow. The shadow
is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Charm isn't a belief. It isn't a guide. It can't tell you where you want to go, it
can only help you get there.
Chase the vision, not the money;
the money will end up following you.
ChatGPT is in its infancy but perhaps that is
the emerging horror of AI - that it will forever be in its infancy as it will
always have further to go, and the direction is always forward, always faster.
It can never be rolled back, or slowed down, as it moves us toward a utopian
future, maybe, or our total destruction. (Nick Cave)
Cheap is the answer for people who
can’t figure out better.
Chemistry
(Salk and polio) vs Alchemy (made somebodies out of 3 nobodies)
Chicken Little only has to be right
once.
Child’s play in a game with no-limit
stakes.
Childish attention-seeking is
usually satisfied at the expense of real power.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Children are always
reaching.
Children are the hope of the
future.
Children are the cruelest of all.
Children first love their parents,
then judge them, but never forgive them.
Children have no memory. It’s all a hole in the wall for them.
Children with strong fathers learn
trust early on, that their needs will be met, that they’re wanted…
Children's two fears-being
devoured; being abandoned.
Chocolate warms the heart and melts
the distance between people. (Hershey)
Choosing the comfort
of ignorance over the inconvenience of truth.
Choosing the convenient over the
good
Choosing to accept that there are
things one does not choose.
Churnalism
Cinema is a machine that
manufactures miracles. (Luis Bunuel)
Circumstances are the rulers of the
weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
"Citius, altius, fortius" / "Swifter, higher,
stronger"
Civilization advances by extending
the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of
them.
Civilization ends at the water’s
edge.
Clarity is the concept.
Clarke’s (quasi) fourth law: For every expert, there is an equal and opposite
expert
Class commands rather than demands
the respect of others.
Clenched fist-
1.
Communication
2.
Trust
3.
Collective Responsibility
4.
Caring
5.
Pride
Clever people master life; the wise
illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Cleverness carries the day, but
wisdom endures.
Cleverness is a gift; kindness is a
choice.
Cleverness is overrated and heart
is underrated.
Clicks trump impressions.
Climbing:
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Climbing a mountain;
There are no shortcuts.
No one can take the steps for you.
You make it, or you don't.
Climbing is not about conquering
the rock; it is about conquering yourself.
Clinging to the past is the
problem. Embracing change is the
solution.
Clive has the mind of a bank
executive and the ears of a teenager.
Close the back door.
Closeness is impossible between an artist
and a critic. Each wants from the other something.
It’s like two vacuum cleaners sucking at each other.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to
the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you
Cocaine: It doesn’t change you, it
just reveals who you really are.
Code wins arguments.
Coffee: a person who is coughed upon
Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. (Einstein)
Coincidences can be nothing more
than God’s way of choosing to remain anonymous.
Cold enough to freeze the balls off
a brass monkey.
Collect, process, organize, review
and do.
Collisions of visual glory and
intellectual squalor.
Combat forever distanced him from
anyone who hadn't been there.
Come
for the business, leave because of management.
Companies
need two models: one focused on delivering today and one focused on building a
new tomorrow.
Comparison
is the death of joy.
Complacency
is the death of possibilities.
Complexity is the enemy of
execution.
Come see me when.
Comedy is a distortion of what’s
happening and something new is always happening.
Comedy is full of boys who didn’t
go to the prom.
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Command by instinct is swifter,
subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by
conscious mind.
Commencement has Latin roots
referring to both "coming together," as well as
"initiating." It’s not really a celebration of
"completion," but rather of "beginning."
Commit to the journey and not the
destination.
Commitment gives one the ability to
become what he has always dreamed of being.
Commitment is the daily triumph of
integrity over skepticism.
Commitment is what transforms a
promise into reality.
Commitment, not authority, produces
results.
Common sense in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.
Common
sense is like deodorant. The people who need it the most never use it.
Communication is the solvent for
all things.
Companies aren’t sold, they are
bought.
Companies don’t lose to
competitors…they lose to themselves because they lose their way.
Companies
make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
Companies need to think not just
what they can get from new tech, but how they can enable others.
Companies that are growing quickly
and those that are not are different in every imaginable way.
Companies that have a soul –
companies that have a clue.
Comparison is the death of joy.
Compassion is a wonderful thing –
not to be wasted on the undeserving.
Compete on execution.
Competing pressures tempt one to
believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis
invented.
Competition, which though painful,
fierce, frequently ruthless, sometimes Darwinian in its pitilessness, is a
cornerstone of our highly successful economic system. Competition is not a tort.
Competition in the arts is a fool's errand, an
artificial construct placed upon that which cannot be judged.
Competitions
are for horses, not men.
Competitive response: even if you lose, you will have learned
something. Maybe you'll see the need for
more conditioning, or knowing your competition better, or using different
tactics.
Competitors: if they were drowning to death, I would put a
hose in their mouth.
Competitors who have nothing have
nothing to lose.
Complacency kills.
Complete the circuit.
Complexity is the enemy. Any fool
can make something complicated. It’s hard to keep things simple. (Branson)
Complexity is the enemy of
execution.
Complicit in their own mediocrity
and indifferent to it.
Compromise elsewhere
Compromise is at the core of
democracy.
Compromise is simply when we change
the question to fit the answer.
Computers are useless. They can
only give you answers. (Picasso)
Computers can do many things, but
they cannot stand on principle.
Conan the Librarian-Lots of
arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.
Concealment is an art.
Conceive, believe, achieve.
Concentrate on opportunities, not
problems.
Concern for what is right causes us
to do our best-knowledge of what is best inspires us to do what is right.
Confessional comedy is really bragging - it’s a
symptom of the disease of conceit
Confidence is the expectation of a
positive outcome.
Confusion doesn’t have to be right
to be confusing.
Confusion
is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
Congress
does not hide elephants in mouseholes.
Connect a promising tomorrow with a
troubled today.
Conqueror
sans peril,
c'est triompher sans gloire. (To conquer without peril is to triumph
without glory.)
Conscience gets a lot of credit
that belongs to cold feet.
Consensus
is often about finding middle ground because people want to feel good about
their colleagues and maintain friendly relations. But it doesn’t necessarily
lead to the best decision.
Consensus is the opposite of
leadership.
Consequences are not, alas,
inevitably the product of intentions; they are determined by the collisions of
intentions and reality.
Consider rejection a lack of
imagination on their part.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings
of others before your own rights.
Consistency is always easier to
defend than correctness.
Consistency is far more important
than frequency on the web.
Consistency is the key
to improvement in anything.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant
today as you were a year ago.
Constitutions, like diets, are
meant to restrict us most when temptation is greatest.
Constitutionally incapable of being
appalled.
Constraints are friends that shrink
the designer’s search space.
Constraints inspire creativity.
Consumers consume products and
company values as well.
Consumers
want fewer, not more, choices that they can have more confidence in.
Contemporary
art consists of all art works however old that physically exist in the present.
We look at them with contemporary eyes, the only kinds of eyes that there ever
are.
Content and commerce are converging
Content is cheap; inspiration is
priceless.
Content is king but context is
kong.
Content was becoming less relevant, more cringe.
Contention is better than
loneliness.
Contentment is the smother of
invention.
Context makes AI word recognition
many times easier.
Continuum: more harm - vs - more
good
Contrary to popular belief,
everything in life doesn't have a clear-cut solution.
Control should be an exercise in
purpose, not power.
Control the agenda.
Control your destiny, or someone
else will.
Control your time – the inbox
reflects the priorities of others. Lead,
don’t react.
Conversation
and competition turned newsrooms into incubators of great ideas.
Convincing yourself is easy.
Cookie
cutters are for baking, not for branding.
Cooking
is the accumulation of details done to perfection.
Cooking or cleaning or delivering or
helping is not inherently dehumanizing, but the understanding of these
experiences baked into American consumer culture ensures that for workers, they
often are.
Cool is not presupposed or inherited; it’s
earned.
Cord cutting (cable provider’s
greatest fear)
Correlation doesn’t imply
causation.
Corrupted education tries to teach
what to think rather than how to think.
Could you really explain to a fish
what it's like to walk on land? One day
on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a
business has exactly the same kind of value.
Count on self-interest, not
self-sacrifice, and you'll never be disappointed.
Courage is contagious.
Courage is in much greater scarcity
than genius.
Courage
is not a finite resource that runs out if you use it too much. Courage is a
muscle that needs to be exercised.
Courage is not how a man stands or
falls, but how he gets back up again.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every
virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.
(C.S. Lewis)
Courage is not the only virtue, but
it is the single virtue without which all the other virtues are meaningless.
Courage is not the absence of fear
but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
Courage is not the absence of fear;
but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear – not the absence of fear.
Courage is the first of human
qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all of the others.
Courage is the temporary absence of
selfishness.
Courage should always be
rewarded-even when it's born of desperation.
Course correcting adaptations are
vital to the execution of a focused agenda.
Covenants, without the sword, are
but words and of no strength to secure a man at all. (Hobbes)
Cowards die many times before their
death.
Create a dream which your customers
can share.
Create, cogitate, communicate and convince
Create tomorrow-don’t defend
yesterday.
Creating moments of joy.
“Creation” has been so overused
that even God must be embarrassed to have it attributed to Him.
Creation never exhausts itself or
comes to the end of its design.
Creationism
is not a scientific alternative to natural selection any more than the stork
theory is an alternative to sexual reproduction.
Creative mess is better than
stagnant neatness.
Creative minds have always been
known to survive any kind of bad training.
Creativity isn’t about luck or
lightning striking. It’s about committing to a process, consistently doing the
work required, and putting yourself in a position to take advantage of the
inspiration and opportunities that arise from time to time.
Creativity may be hard to nurture,
but it’s easy to thwart.
Creativity requires the courage to
let go of certainties.
Creativity without craft and constraints is simply crap.
Credentials are not the same as
accomplishments.
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge
but in audacity. (Tacitus)
Crisp it up.
Criticism is the highest form of praise.
Critics at their worst/ could never
criticize/ the way that you do/ No, there's no one else, I find/ to undermine
or dash a hope/ quite like you.
Crooked as a hound’s hind leg.
Cr
Crowd-source your super users.
Crown and anchor me/Or
let me sail away.
Cruel but fair.
Cruising for a bruising, angling
for a mangling, aiming for a maiming.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of
war. (Marc Anthony)
Crying is a sign that there is
still hope.
Culture: tradition, mythology,
ritual, customers, habits, heroes, peculiarities, and values.
Culture: individual identity built
on shaping values, making heroes, spelling out rites and rituals, and
acknowledging cultural network.
Culture eats strategy for
breakfast.
Culture is a consequence of the way
you run your business and your performance.
Culture is for living, and art
should be about taking part.
Culture isn’t one aspect of the
game – it is the game.
Culture isn’t what you say. It’s
what you do.
Culture needs to be a hierarchy or
aristocracy because talent isn’t common – governance should be a democratic and
universal right.
Cultures that do not cherish their
best selves die by their own hand.
(Jonah Goldberg)
Cum grand salis ….
with a grain of salt
Cum tacent clamant … with
silence they cry out
Cunningham’s law:
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question,
it’s to post the wrong answer
Curb your contempt
Curiosity, Confidence,
Courage, and Constancy.
Customer expectations are
progressive.
Customer satisfaction isn't
everything-it’s the only thing.
Customer trust is hard to win and easy
to lose.
Customers buy for their reasons,
not yours.
Customers don’t care about our constraints.
Customers vote with dollars, not
hugs.
Customers want 1/4" holes, not
1/4" drills.
Cynicism is a cancer of the soul.
Cynosure: person who is the center of attention.
