Words of Wisdom - F

 

 F

 

Face life as you find it, defiantly and unafraid.  Waste no energy yearning for the moon.  Crush out all sentiment.

 

Facebook: stay focused and keep shipping.

 

Faced with apathy, I will take action.  Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.

 

"Face value" has none.

 

Facilities for the non-verbal middle class.

 

Facts are stubborn things.

 

Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.  (John Adams)

 

Facts are replaced with feelings.

 

Facts change, truth doesn’t.

 

Facts do not cease to be because they are ignored.

 

Facts don’t care about your feelings.

 

Fail, fail again, fail better.

 

Fail forward toward success.

 

Fail often, succeed sooner.

 

Failing to plan is like planning to fail.

 

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

 

Failure comes from a failure to imagine the possibility of failure.

 

Failure is a better teacher than success.

 

Failure is a blow and success is a pleasant distraction.

 

Failure is impossible.

 

Failure is just another word for education.

Failure is just delayed success.

 

Failure is not a loss; it is a mindset.

 

Failure is not an option.

 

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

 

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

 

Failure is so permanent, and success will always be taken away from you next time.

 

Failure is the path of least persistence.

 

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

 

Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

 

Failures are skinned knees-painful but superficial.

 

Failures don’t matter. You can only lose one times your capital.

 

Failures of kindness

 

Failures tend to examine their suppositions about life; the successful are more likely to celebrate themselves as good examples.

 

Fair is some place you go to look at the animals.

 

Fair is where you end up. (Ari Emanuel)

 

Fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

 

Fairy tales teach children to meet the forces of the mythical world with cunning and high spirits.

 

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

 

Faith is believing one of two things will happen:  that there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

 

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

 

Faith is the antithesis of proof.

 

Faith sees best in the dark.

 

Faith without works is dead.

 

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

 

Fake work: effort under the illusion of value

 

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

 

Fall in the right direction.

 

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

 

Falling in love with the problem means valuing the end user as the key to success, not even your own ideas and creations.

 

Falsehood flies and truth comes limping after it. (Jonathan Swift)

 

Fame and glory will always be transitory.

 

Fame does not do what you think it’s going to do It doesn’t fill an empty soul, and it doesn’t build a bridge across loneliness.

 

Fame is a vapor.  Popularity an accident.  Riches take wings.  Only one thing endures, and that is character.

 

Fame is like cocaine.  People think they can control it-but they can't.

 

Fame is morally neutral.

 

Fame is the first disgrace.

 

FAMGA: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon

 

Familiarity breeds comfort until it suddenly breeds contempt.

 

Family is more important than fame or fortune and don’t try to convince yourself otherwise.

 

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

(Santayana)

 

Fantasizing about an apocalyptic future is just as much of a fantasy as fantasizing about an utopic future. 

 

Far easier to accept than to try to change.

 

Farmers are a lot more familiar with failure than frat boys.

 

Fashion is a habit, but art lasts forever.

 

Fast is as slow as we go

Faster, faster until the thrill of the speed overcomes the fear of death.

 

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life.

 

Fate whispers to the warrior, “You cannot withstand the storm”. And the warrior whispers back, “I am the storm”.

 

Fathers get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life. 

 

Fathers often use too much force.

 

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

 

Faux-bucolic

 

Favor passion over intellect or credentials.

 

Fear always springs from ignorance (illuminate the cause-eliminate the fear).

 

Fear and I were born twins. (Hobbes)

 

Fear can chase dreams into hiding.

 

Fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. (Huxley)

 

Fear defeats more people than any one other thing in the world. (Emerson)

 

Fear is contaminated faith.

 

Fear is the greatest incapacitator.

 

Fear is the thing that defeats us all.

 

Fear motivates more than hope.

 

Fear vs. greed.

 

Fear's a powerful thing, baby / It can turn your heart black, you can trust / It'll take your God-filled soul / And fill it with devils and dust.

 

Fear’s enemy is creativity.

 

Feasibility will compromise you soon enough.

Feconventilatory collision.

 

Feedback transformed into blowback.

 

Feel free to rearrange the universe.

 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  (William Arthur Ward)

 

Feelings are not the immediate destination in any conversation with the Clintons.

 

Female movie stars are no longer buried after a certain age; instead they are embalmed.

 

Ferocious learning

 

Fetters of gold are still fetters.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

 

Few people have the imagination for reality. (Goethe)

 

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

 

Fiat justitia, ruat caelum — let justice be done, though the heavens fall? 

 

Fiction reveals things that reality obscures.

 

Fierce focus can be too much of a good thing.

 

Fight for simplicity.

 

Fight on your best turf.

 

Figure out where you leave off and everybody else begins.

 

Fill your life with the things that deserve to be there.

 

Film is a collaborative business:  bend over.

 

Finagle's four rules:

 

  1.       The information you have is not the information you want.

  2.       The information you want is not the information you need.

  3.       The information you need is the information you can't obtain.

  4.       The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay.

Find a wall and try to move it.

 

Find out what prevents someone from doing a good job.

 

Find the real root cause(s).  Then you fix the problem for all customers, not just the unhappy one.

 

Find the truth.  Act on it.

 

Find what you love and let it kill you. (Charles Bukowski)

 

Finely wrought or overwrought.

 

Finis origine pendet (the end depends upon the beginning).

 

Fire for attitude; fix for skills.

 

Firefighting: putting the wet stuff on the red stuff.

 

First do it, then say it.

 

First generation software: the first buyers are the last beta-testers.

 

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

 

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

 

First we will be best, then we will be first.

 

First you dream, then you die.

 

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. - Leo Rosenberg 

Fish stinks from the head.

 

Fishing in a place where you know there are no fish.

 

Five-factor model: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.

 

Fix it, close it, or sell it.

 

Flabbergasted:  appalled over how much weight you have gained.

 

FLAGS: Fear, Love, Anger, Greed and Sympathy.  Political drivers.

 

Flattery is like cologne – to be smelled, but not swallowed.

Flaubert:  Be regular and ordinary in your life, like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

 

Flirtation - attention without intention.

 

Flood the zone with shit.

 

Florida: a sunny place for shady people.

 

Fluency is the goal – not competency. That’s a bridge too far.

 

Focus – you can drown in opportunities.

 

Focus and simplicity are a workforce multiplier.

 

Focus doesn’t mean saying “yes” to the thing you’ve got to focus on. It means saying “no” to the 100 other good ideas that are out there.

 

Focus is defined as directed attention.

 

Focus on being productive, not just being busy.

 

Focus on making things better, not bigger.

 

Focus on the user and all else will follow.

 

Focus on those things you do better than others

 

Focused attentional states facilitate learning.

 

Follow me if I advance,

Kill me if I retreat,

Avenge me if I die.

 

Follow-up prevents foul-up.

 

FOMO – manufactured angst and addiction. (Fear of Missing Out)

 

Football is about character, not personality.

 

Football is about hard work, pain and losing.

 

Football is not a contact sport; it is a collision sport.  Dancing is a contact sport.

 

For a brief moment, we were all there together, dancing the night away, with our whole lives ahead of us.

For a speech to be immortal, it need not be interminable.

 

For a young person it is almost a sin-and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person, it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

 

For Americans in a socially isolating culture, living under an all but broken political system, the consumer realm is the place where many people can most consistently feel as though they are asserting their agency.

 

For authentic living, what is necessary is the resolute confrontation of death.

 

For every beautiful woman, there’s a man who’s tired of sleeping with her.

 

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

 

For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

 

For generations, American shoppers have been trained to be nightmares

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 

            (I Corinthians 14:8)

For of all the sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these:  “it might have been.”

 

For Profit  –vs-  For Purpose (rather than non-profit)

 

For such a small company, you are really a big pain in the ass.

 

For the criminal, therapy is just another criminal operation.

 

For those of us who shared his time, he was part of the luck we had.

 

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

 

For unto whomsoever so much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

 

For want of a nail, the shoe is lost.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it? (Luke 14:28)

 

For whom else but you?

 

Forecasts are dangerous, especially those about the future.

 

Foreign affairs is like sex. If you always insist on coming first, you’ll have trouble finding partners.

 

Forever caught between accommodation and rage.

 

Forewarned is forearmed.

 

Forewarned is forlorn.

 

Forget motivating your employees, just don’t de-motivate them.

 

Forget the past.  No one becomes successful in the past.

 

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

 

Forgiven, but not forgotten.

 

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

 

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It’s often easier to forgive our enemies than our friends and harder still to forgive people we love.

 

Forgiveness is the giving up of hope that you will ever change the past.

 

Forgotten, but not gone.

 

Formula One racing is to NASCAR what Polo is to Rodeo.

 

Forsake peacekeeping for truth telling.

 

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. (Aeneid)  Someday perhaps, remembering even this will be a pleasure.

 

Fortes fortuna adjuvat / Fortune favors the bold   (Audentes fortuna juvat)

 

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

 

Four be the things I’d be better without:  love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

 

Four guys dressed up in their first graduation suits — serious, sincere, and a little uncomfortable.

 

Four laws of learning: explanation, demonstration, correction, repetition.

 

Four phases of meeting: forming, storming, norming and performing.

 

Four Seasons’ service—McDonalds’ prices.

Four things define a man: his home, his car, his wife, and his shoes.

 

Four truths: (1) You will never make “it”. (2) The work will never end. (3) It’s not about you. (4) The world needs you.

 

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt.  It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure.

 

Free culture, like cheap food, incurs hidden costs.

 

Free is very pro-consumer.

 

Freedom, privileges, options must constantly be exercised or eventually lost.

 

Freedom from legacy discussions.

 

Freedom is never an accomplished fact. It is always a process. The only way freedom can be defended is not by fencing it in, but by enlarging and exercising it.

 

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

 

Freedom is the only guardian of freedom.

 

Freedom's just another word for nothin’ left to lose.

 

Freedom lies in being bold.

 

Freeing our minds from the tyranny of the present.

 

Freud = Pleasure   Adler = Power   Frankel = Meaning

 

Friction free – eliminate thought from consumption.

 

Frictionless - eliminate thought from consumption.

 

“Friend of mine” is better than “top of mind”

 

Friendly friction.

 

Friends are the family that we choose.

 

Friends are the family that you choose for yourself.

 

Friends aren’t necessarily the people you like best; they are merely the people who got there first.

 

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

 

Friends don’t fire friends.

 

Friends welcome, relatives by appointment only.

 

Friendship is two-sided. It’s when you do for each other.

 

From fortune to misfortune is but a step; from misfortune to fortune is a long way.

 

From here on down, it’s all uphill.

 

From “play ball” to PlayStation.

 

From strength to strength. (  m’hayil le hayil )

 

From the old guard to the vanguard

 

Front runners always work the hardest, and risk the most.

 

Frosting on a road apple.

 

Frugal innovation

 

Fuck the puck.

 

Fueling your fears is a waste of imagination.

 

Fun is a child of accident and chaos, resistant to authority’s guiding hand. 

 

Fun is a false sense of ecstasy.

 

Fun is the one thing that money can't buy.

 

Fun, with its little anarchies, is suspect. 

 

Funding is the front end of the journey.

 

Funktionslust: An animal's full enjoyment of its powers.

 

Funny is money.

Fury is useful only as fuel. It needs to be specifically directed.

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