Thursday, December 21, 2023

WORDS OF WISDOM - N

 

N

 

Nail it; then scale it.

 

Naive listening.

 

Narcissists are Grand Canyons of need.

 

NASCAR races are won in the pits.

 

Nashville. A small town inside a big city.

Nature does not evolve toward goals but away from constraints.

 

Nature doesn’t make appointments.

 

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 your 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.

 

Negative polarization — the degree to which we loathe the other side, even if we don’t much like our side — is now the most powerful force in American politics.

 

Negativity is clicky.

 

Negotiating is a way of saying, “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.

 

Neither a monkey who misses a branch nor a man who misses his chance can be saved.

 

Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders one happy.

 

Neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

 

Neural networks produce results that feel close to human speech and creativity, but the models rely on pattern recognition — not wit, candor or intent.

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 allow yourself to be defined by someone else’s opinion of you.

 

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 the story.

 

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 anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it.

 

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 cede ground in an information war.

 

Never challenge a lion in his own den.

 

Never complain, never explain.

 

Never confuse motion with action

 

Never confuse silence or good manners with acceptance or agreement.

 

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 does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

 

Never ever forget your roots.

 

Never expect to get what you give, not everyone has a heart like yours.

 

Never fear being vulgar, just boring.

 

Never feel like you’ve made it.

 

Never feel that you are the one who must fill every silence in a negotiation.

 

Never get angry except on purpose.

 

Never get high on your own supply.

 

Never go to a fight that you’re invited to

 

Never grift on the way out.

 

Never have I been a blue calm sea / I have always been a storm.

 

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 human history has the present been so temporary.

 

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 interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

 

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 the business grow faster than you.

 

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.

 

Never let the truth get in the way of telling a good story.

 

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 love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.

Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.

 

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

 

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 mistake activity for achievement.

 

Never negotiate with a hard-on.

 

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

 

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. (Algren)

 

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

 

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

 

Never promise more than you can perform.

 

Never pull into a parking space that you can't back out of.

 

Never put your foot any place you haven’t looked.

 

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 sheep to kill a wolf.

 

Never send to know for whom / the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

 

Never settle for a “No” from someone who can’t say “Yes”.

 

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 stop being a good person because of bad people.

 

Never stop sharpening the blade.

 

Never stop testing and your advertising will never stop improving. (Ogilvy)

 

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 tire of doing good.

 

Never tolerate commitments in words instead of in spirit.

 

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

 

Never trust the survivor of a massacre until you know what he did to survive. (Vonnegut)

 

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others and try to be the best you can be.

 

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. (GEORGE CARLIN)

 

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” collar jobs

 

New ideas are like loaves of bread. They often emerge from the oven, looking half-baked home and lumpy. Give them a chance to rise.

 

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 is increasingly about persuasion instead of illumination.

 

News shouted loudly enough from the rooftops will not always fall on deaf ears.

 

Newspapers are just a weight for doggy bags.

 

Newspapers used to own customers – many needs, few choices. Today – consumers have many choices and few needs.

 

Newsworthiness is a choice masquerading as an inevitability.

 

NBA: Next Best Action

 

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 doesn’t play in this town.

 

Nice isn’t a sufficient quality for friendship; but it’s a necessary one.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. – George Burns 

Nicks’s music is what you listen to when you need help listening to yourself.

Nietzsche:  So long as you are praised, think only that you are not yet on your own path, but on that of another.

 

Nietzsche had a real knack for a catchy phrase.

 

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 percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

 

Ninety-five percent of the show is just being there on time.

 

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

 

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 better friend, no worse enemy.

 

No book is ever finished, it is merely abandoned.

 

No brilliant idea was ever born in a conference room.

 

No CEO has ever said they’d prefer activity over results.

 

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 8th place trophies.

 

No eulogy is due to a man who simply does his duty and nothing more. (St. Augustine)

 

No excuses, no alibis.

 

No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are either voluntarily or being forced to peer through. (Spielberg)

 

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 heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.

No hills without gravestones, no valleys without shadows.

 

No hugging, no learning.

 

No, I’m not homeless. I’m just houseless at the moment.

 

No idea is a bad idea until the data prove so.

 

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

 

No means are beyond bounds when the ends are so enviable.

 

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 idea starts out as a great idea.

 

No law of economics says that technological advances have to benefit everyone or even most people. (Prior reliance on anecdotes)

 

No life is as alive as a life of service.

 

No man can serve two masters.

 

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

 

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. (Heraclitus)

 

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

 

No man has ever listened himself out of a job.

 

No man was ever wise by chance. 

 

No man is an island.

 

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 is rich enough to buy back his past.

 

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 educated, talented, rich or cool, you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.

 

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 chairs you have, you only have one ass.

 

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 where you go. There you are. (Confucius)

 

No matter which side prevails, the true victor in any war is the person selling weapons to both sides. 

 

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 be uncheered with a balloon.

 

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 a career out of writing.

 

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 else can decide, just listen to the voice that speaks inside.

 

No one ever caught a train without missing the previous one.

 

No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

 

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

 

No one ever made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

 

No one ever paid to see under the top. (Joel Schumacher)

 

No one ever wasted less time reaching his prime.  epithet

 

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. (Mencken)

 

No one forgets where he buried the hatchet.

 

No one gets hired to eat a slice of chocolate cake.

 

No one gets to see the Wizard, not no one. Not no how.

 

No one gives me credit for hating myself.

 

No one has experience doing things that have never been done before.

 

No one has real defensibility on day 1. It is built over time in people, processes, and products.

 

No one is a hero in their hometown.

 

No one is completely worthless.  You can always serve as a bad example.

 

No one is entitled to a perfect life.

 

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.

 

No one lies like family.

 

No one man's mind is sufficient to grasp the entire truth.

 

No one owns the future.

 

No one person should walk behind two donkeys.

 

Nobody remembers a loser or a quitter.

 

No one remembers or cares who was first, only who is best.

 

No one roots for Goliath.

 

No one sings solo.

 

No one sits Baby in a corner.

 

No one wakes up every day wanting to be a little less happy.

 

No one wants to be first, but everyone wants to be second.

 

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 you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you.

 

No one’s ever held up a bank with a dildo.

 

No pandemic is deadlier than stupidity.

 

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. (Ann Landers)

 

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 pressure, no diamonds.

 

No prisoners.

 

No prophet is accepted in his own town.

 

No reward without effort. (Palma non sine pulvere.)

 

No risk it; no biscuit.

 

No shooting inside the tent.

 

No snowflake falls in an inappropriate place.

 

No society works without trust and optimism.

 

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 surprises.

 

No sympathy for losers.

 

No trophies for 8th place.

 

No true artist will tolerate for one minute the world 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.

 

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. 

 

No work of art is possible without belief in the audience.

 

Nobel Prize winner-chauffeur on tour.  (Panetta)

 

Nobody can ever quite separate the dancer from the dance.

 

Nobody cedes their privilege.

 

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 comes to work to do a decent job.

 

Nobody ever fell from a pedestal into anything but a pit. (Joss Wheldon)

 

Nobody ever won a horse race by yelling “Whoa!”.

 

Nobody expects more from us than we do.

Nobody expects to trust his body much after the age of fifty. - Alexander Hamilton 

Nobody gets in to see the wizard, not nobody, not nohow.

 

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 likes change except babies with wet diapers.

 

Nobody out-Geschreis me.

Nobody owns the customer, but someone always owns the moment.

Nobody said you couldn’t, but nobody thought you would.

 

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

 

Nodding your head doesn’t row the boat.

 

Noisy inaction.

 

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.

 

Nontroversy

 

Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true.

 

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

 

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

 

Nostalgia kills happiness.

 

Not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.

 

Not a single stage of our life passes without leaving a trace. (Putin)

 

Not all bad comes from bad.

Not all change is for the better. 

 

Not all jobs are the same, but all jobs are important.

 

Not all those who wander are lost.

 

Not all truths should be told.

 

Not all who wander are lost. (Tolkien)

 

Not as if by magic but by his own gift.

 

Not because it’s the country you live in, but because it’s a country you believe in.

 

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 because we were welcomed, but because we wouldn’t stop winning. (Serena Williams)

 

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 in life is about right and wrong.

Not everything is for children. Not everything is for everybody. (R. Crumb)

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 how to repave my path, but to lay another of your own.

 

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 my circus, not my monkeys. (Polish proverb)

 

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)

 

Not so much brilliant as inevitable.

 

Not so much great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, but little advantages that occur 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 voting isn’t a protest. It’s a surrender.

 

Not wrong, prematurely right.

 

Nothing ages like happiness.

 

Nothing burger.

 

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

 

Nothing can be older than its creator.

 

Nothing can happen in decades, and then decades can happen in weeks.

 

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

 

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 else matters but the mile you’re running right now. (Marathoner Emma Bates)

 

Nothing endures but change.

 

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 quickly, but it happens remorselessly.

 

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 I can say really matters except telling someone that they aren’t alone.

 

Nothing in business gets better by itself.

 

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 beyond me and nothing is beneath me.

 

Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word.

 

Nothing is impossible for the strong-willed. (Nihil Difficile Volent!)

 

Nothing is so corrupting as a great idea whose time is past.

 

Nothing is so hopeless as a scheme of merriment.

 

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems. (Galloway)

 

Nothing is ever definitely won 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 despicable than respect based on fear.

 

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 matters but your will to succeed.

 

Nothing more enhances authority than silence.

 

Nothing moves by itself, unless it's going downhill.

 

Nothing not written in blood is worth reading. (Nietzsche)

 

Nothing offends me more than waste.

 

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.

 

Nothing slows a game down like speed (Yogi Berra)

 

Nothing speaks louder than code.

 

Nothing so conveys a sense of 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 tastes as good as being thin feels.

 

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

 

Nothing that matters a lot is going to be simple.

 

Nothing vast enters the world without a curse. (Sophocles)

 

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.

 

Nothing will work unless you do.

 

Nothing’s worse than employees who quit, but don’t leave.

 

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 here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.  (The Red Queen to Alice)

Now if I can feel the sun in my eyes / And the rain on my face / Why can’t I feel love.

 

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.

 

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

 

Numb slumber.

 

Numbers don’t lie, but they don’t tell the whole truth.