S
70%
of the answer is not an answer.
Sacred
cows make the tastiest hamburgers.
Sacrifice
the few to save the many (Iactura Paucorum Serva Multos)
Sacrifices
must be made.
Sadness
has no end, but happiness does.
Sadness
is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sage on
the stage, guide on the side.
Sales
cure all.
Sales
solve all sins.
Same bed,
different dreams.
Sanity
is a very narrow sliver of the possibilities of mind. Because we have
culturally accepted norms, we have a certain way of acting and thinking and
speaking, and if you deviate from that a little too much, then you’re, at best,
weird, and at worst, clinically insane.
Satire is
a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but
their own.
Satisfying
to the point of sensuousness.
Savor
kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
Say half
of what you think.
Say only
what you believe and what you can defend (Diller)
Say what
you think, do what you say.
Say “yes”
and do “no”.
Saying
you’re going to be an artist for a career is like buying a cardboard box as a
house.
Sayre’s law: In
any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of
the issues at stake
Scale
squashed innovation.
Scale
without substance means squat.
Scandal
sticks to rebuttal like tar.
Scared money never wins.
Schadenfreude-Schaden=damage; freude=joy.
Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
“Scientia
est Potentia” – Knowledge is power.
Screenwriting
is like ironing. You move forward a
little bit and go back and smooth things out.
Screenwriting
is like writing in the sand with the wind blowing.
Seagull
management: fly in, make a lot of noise, drop shit on everyone, fly out.
Seal
rules: 1. Make your bed. 2. Find people to paddle with you. 3.
Measure the size of heart, not flippers. 4. Get over being a sugar cookie and
keep moving forward. 5. Don't be afraid of the circuses. 6. Sometimes you have
to slide down obstacles headfirst. 7. Don't back down from the sharks. 8. You
must be your very best in the darkest moments. 9. Start singing when you're up
to your neck in mud. Hope for everyone. 10. Don't ever, ever ring the bell.
Search is
the 24/7 focus group.
Second
place is really the first loser.
Secure
people are emotionally generous, while people who feel like failures will take
their frustrations out on you.
See early what others see late.
See
things not as they are, but as they might be.
Seeing
through the branded world is not the same thing as rejecting it.
Seize the
day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Seldom,
if ever, have so many tried so hard to keep one man happy.
Selection
effect (going there anyway) vs Advertising effect (driven by ads) – Pizza
coupons
Self
abuse with sandpaper.
Self-awareness
can be crippling.
Self-destructive
people often come equipped with intoxicating charisma.
Self-esteem
from accomplishments, not compliments.
Self-interest
is the enemy of all true affection.
Self-pity
and gratitude are mortal enemies. Where one exists, the other cannot. Since
both are highly contagious, individuals must choose gratitude before becoming
too thankless to do otherwise.
Self-pity
doesn’t solve anything.
Self-pity
is a lead shoe.
Self-praise
is no praise at all.
Self-praise
is no recommendation.
Self-starting:
the ability to light your own fire.
Selfies
are the new autographs.
Sell a
business to a rock
Sell
shoes to a snake.
Selling
pearls you own to someone who wants to buy them is not business. Selling pearls you don't own to someone who
doesn't want to buy them is business.
Selvage edge: self-finished edge
which won’t unravel or fray.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi (Always Wear Underwear)
Sensible
solutions do not present themselves as sensible to the minds of the
overwrought.
Sentimentality
is the reverse side of brutality.
Sentimentality:
too much feeling for too small an event.
Separate
what must be done well now from what can be improved later
Service
after the sale is as important as the sale itself.
Service
is about self-esteem, more than training.
Service
is just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering,
compassionate type of activity.
Service
is your next sale in the making.
Sesquipedalian: words with many syllables or speakers &
writers who use long & unfamiliar words.
Set a
thief to catch a thief.
Set a
time limit on trying (failing) and then turn away.
Set
impossible standards. Expend
extraordinary efforts. Achieve
remarkable results.
Setting
the goal is easy; the rest is plain hard work.
Severe
depression was revealed to me as an unimagined abyss. Those who have never experienced
serious depression cannot understand what it is like just by extrapolating from
our own periods of sadness. It is not just sorrow; it is a state of
consciousness that distorts perceptions of time, space and self.
SF: The
homeless have Android phones. The techies have iPhones.
Shackled
by illiteracy.
Shame is
fear of disconnection.
Shame is
the social side of guilt.
Shame
requires an awareness of others and their disapproval, and it has to be
learned.
Sharing
does not make one a victim.
Sharing
is the way we make things real.
She
always got what she wanted because she never wanted what she couldn’t have.
She can
bring the match or she can bring the water.
She conquers who conquers herself. Vincit quae se vincit.
She cried
and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
She
doesn't cook, she melts food.
She
doesn’t speak with flour in her mouth.
She
fascinates but does not invite affection.
She gave
him sex and he gave her class.
She had a
gender but no agenda.
She has
friends she hasn’t used yet.
She has
nerves like needles.
She is
broken but won’t ask for help.
She lies better
than I can tell the truth.
She
looked like Bert Lahr with long hair.
She looks
good for an age she won’t actually reach for a decade.
She makes
coffee nervous.
She meant
well in the worst sense of the word.
She
reached out suddenly, took both my hands, and pulled me close to her. Cl
She speaks with her eyes. They are so easy to
understand because there is a pool of love within each of them.
She
thinks I’m crazy but I’m just growing old. (Hey 19)
She
thought cooking and fucking were two cities in China.
She was a
constant reader without a trace of intellectual curiosity.
She was a
fiercely independent and stubborn woman, full of contradictions, who embraced
life with the quiet exuberance of one who realized it was all tenable but
suspect, and it was worthy of the highest celebration and the most passionate
observance.
She was a
large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
She was
pressing them to make definitional choices.
She wore
too much rouge last night and not enough clothes. That is always a sign of
despair in a woman.
She’ll be
a story, not a weapon. (when I talk to my kids)
She’s a
little bald-headed girl. She won’t
complain; she just sustain. Bounce her,
and she comes back. All she wants is
more.
She is as dumb as a box of hair.
She weeps, but she takes her share - and the more she weeps, the
more she takes.
She’s
like a nun with a knife.
She’s not
good, but she’s bad in an interesting sort of way.
Sheepwalker
(mindless follower)
Shoot it
up or sleep in the streets.
Shoot what flies, claim what falls.
Shoulda,
coulda and woulda won't get it done.
Shout at
the wind and it will fill your mouth with sand.
Shouting
a lie doesn’t make it true.
Show me a
good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Show up a bit earlier.
Shrouds
have no pockets.
Shut off
your competitor's oxygen.
Si non
nunc quando. (If not now, when?)
Si, non
oscillas noli tintinnare. (If you don’t swing, don’t ring.)
Silence
is a tax on the truth.
Silence
is argument carried on by other means.
Silence
is sometimes the best answer.
Silence
is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Silence
propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult
it is to find anything to say. (Johnson)
Silent
gratitude isn't of very much use to anyone.
Simple
explanations are usually neither.
Simple
things are not easy.
Simplicity,
of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
Simplicity
rarely loses to complexity in the public square.
Since no
one’s done it before, there are no rules to stop you.
Single-mindedness
is the only way to go about your work.
Sir, a
woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to
find it done at all.
Sister, I
won’t ask for forgiveness. My sins are
all I have.
Sitzfleisch
- a German word that means the ability and the strength to sit on your
ass.
Sizzle
>> Fizzle
Skeptical
of conventional explanations of what is possible.
Skepticism
is healthy and an appropriate attitude toward those who wield power. Cynicism is corrosive and self-corrupting.
Skepticism
is not a sign of intelligence. It is a
sin.
Sleep is
a gift that God gives to you.
Sleep is
for the weak -- the week after launch.
Sleep
like a baby every night-that is-sleep for an hour-wake up-cry all night.
Sleep on
it. French: La nuit porte conseil.
The night carries advice.
Slick as
a button on a backhouse door.
Slights
unseen.
Slipping
into madness is good for the sake of comparison.
Sloppiness
steals from the bottom line.
Sloppy
thinking gets worse over time.
Slow
is smooth, and smooth is fast.
Slow
progress is still progress.
Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hittin’.
Small
pieces loosely joined.
Small
wins can improve the odds of bigger successes later on. (Focus on milestones).
Smart is
the new handsome.
Smart
people spend hours learning to use new technology. Smarter people find ways to weasel out of it.
Smart
people still do dumb things.
Smelled
like she’d been sucking donkeys off all day.
Snakes:
(1) Kill them when you see them. (2) Don’t go back and play with dead ones. (3)
All opportunities look like snakes at first.
Snatching
the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human
existence.
Snobbery
is a necessary stage for the insecure until we acquire taste that admits and
reflects the variety of experience.
Snow melts
from the edges. Like change.
So
brilliant yet so corrupt that, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, he both
shines and stinks.
So cold as
to be almost reptilian.
So
connected and all alone.
So don't
waste the time I don't have.
So long as
you are praised, think only that you are not yet on your own path, but on that
of another.
So many
dreams that flow away / So many words we didn't say.
So many
faces in and out of my life, some will last, some will just be now and then,
life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye
again.
So many of us give up because we tend to look at how far we
still have to go, instead of how far we have come.
So many people put on the trappings of
authority and peddle pearls of wisdom who don’t actually have the goods.
So much
information, so little accountability.
So much
precious time goes by and it seems to me that I get so little out of it.
So often
times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we
have the key.
So-so
automation — technology that is just barely good enough to replace human
workers, but not good enough to create new jobs or make companies significantly
more productive.
So take
it from me, you’ll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could
ever learn in school.
So that
men may see, I throw dust in their eyes.
So that
the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the
dancing. (T.S. Eliot)
So walk tall / Or baby, don't walk at all.
So we beat
on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
So, what
are we waiting for?
So,
wherever he lands, he’s at home.
So,
wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's
always Pooh and Me.
"What
would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If
it wasn't for you," and Pooh said:
"True..."
So you
get a good idea, and it just moves forward and usually by the time you’re
finished, it doesn’t resemble anything of what might have been the inspiration.
It’s simply the spark that starts the fire. (Quentin Tarantino)
So you’re
scared and you’re thinking/That maybe we ain’t that young anymore….Show a
little faith, there’s magic in the night.
So,
you’re unhappy. Relax. No law says you got to be happy.
Social
cohesion – the natural impulse to seek consensus.
Social
media: we know that it works, but we don’t know how it works.
Social
media adds conversation to consumption.
Social
media is the new TV
Social
media is the toilet of the internet.
Social media platforms reward shallow polemics:
self-aggrandizement, competition and conflict.
Socialism
is founded on sand.
Society
doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. (Independent, unbiased,
and accurate real-time reporting)
Software
is one brief moment of creation and a lifetime of maintenance.
Software
is the donkey, and everyone loves to beat the donkey. (Motorola)
Software
is the resting place of afterthoughts.
Solitude
is enriching.
Solitude
is the place where we find our better selves.
Solutions. Not problems.
Some are
born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Some battles are simply not worth fighting, some
battles must be fought, but none are worth fighting on terms set by those who
win by having the conflict drag on endlessly.
Some books
are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested. (Bacon)
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Some
circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Some
dance to remember, some dance to forget.
Someday
my ship will come in, but with my luck, I’ll be at the airport.
Some days
you’re the bug; some days you’re the windshield.
Some days
you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
Some
experience doesn’t toughen you, it wears you out.
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Some
ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe in them.
Some
leaders are born women.
Some like
to understand what they believe in.
Others like to believe in what they understand.
Some members of Congress are work horses and some are show
horses.
Some men
see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream things that never were and say,
"Why not?"
Some nights it fails completely and other
nights it transcends everybody's expectations, as if the musicians are
channeling God.
Some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic, but I
had a good life all the way.
Some of
the worst mistakes in my life have been haircuts.
Some of
our defenses are more primitive than others.
Some of
us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only
one thing: the result.
Some
opportunities arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not
yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
Some part
of every journey is going to be uphill.
Some
people are alive today only because it's against the law to kill them.
Some
people are born to be customers.
Some
people are like horses, they have only their manual labor to offer.
Some
people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Some
people do not become thinkers because their memories are too good.
Some
people don’t know when or how to stop fighting.
Some
people have five years of experience, and some have one year's experience five
times.
Some
people lay track and some people drive the train.
Some
people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their
character.
Some
people should be required to wear warning signs.
Some
people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite
of vulgarity. (C.Chanel)
Some
people's dreams are too big for them.
Some
people think only intellect counts; knowing how to solve problems, knowing how
to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are
insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Some
problems never get solved. They just get
older.
Some terrible
things are done in the name of love.
Some
things can only be said in fiction, but that doesn't mean they aren't true.
Some
things are true no matter how and when you're told.
Some
things have to be believed to be seen.
Some
things that should not have been forgotten will be lost. History becomes
legend. And legend passes into myth.
Some
things you teach yourself to remember to forget.
Some weeks, it feels as though there is a
sniper in the trees, picking off people we have loved for years.
Some who are not paid what they are
worth ought to be glad.
Somebody
has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Somebody
put it there. When you see a turtle on a
fencepost, it didn’t get there by itself.
Someday
all of this will have as much validity, no more and no less, as speculation as
to the masculinity or femininity of the sun.
Someday
computer power will be synonymous with wealth itself.
Someday
needs to be today.
Somehow
pain and regret seem to be the only things that can trigger my feelings, and
songs are the only way to say what I feel - but once your feelings become a
song, they don't belong to you anymore.
They belong to all the people who identify with them.
Someone
else’s fear doesn’t have to be yours unless you let it.
Someone
is always pretending whenever the lights go down.
Someone
is always selling – either you or the customer.
Someone
who doesn’t know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing.
Someone who feels taken care of will always
return.
Someone
who learned to shave on someone else’s beard.
Someone
will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
Something
does not need to be perfect to be wonderful, especially weddings.
Something
is always better than nothing – than nothing at all.
Something
now is better than a whole lot of nothing later.
Something
not worth arguing about is not worth digging.
Something we were withholding made us weak until we found it was
ourselves.
Sometimes
a dream postponed is a dream lost.
Sometimes
a leap of faith can make a big splash.
Sometimes
a little smile can make my day, but usually it takes money or chocolate.
Sometimes
a scream is better than a thesis.
Sometimes
he keeps things moving by not doing anything.
Sometimes
I feel like my whole life's been a mistake.
Sometimes
I like to just go home at night and let someone else vomit.
Sometimes
I think you believe in me more than I do.
Sometimes,
I'm terrified of my heart, of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants.
Sometimes
in books, the characters find their moral compass; in the best books, the
reader does, too.
Sometimes it is better to let the bear run out of the cage back
into the forest.
Sometimes
it’s good to remember. Being hurt? Being stupid.
Sometimes
it is a good choice not to choose at all.
Sometimes
it is more important to discover what you cannot do, than what you can do.
Sometimes it’s just better to have a BLT and be
done with it.
Sometimes
it’s necessary to kill a chicken to frighten the monkeys. (Chinese)
Sometimes it’s only in the process of writing that you discover
your original ideas.
Sometimes
life slips in a backdoor and carves out a person.
Sometimes
one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks
to choose the weapons.
Sometimes one’s deepest loyalties are to the
ghosts in the room.
Sometimes
revolutions happen in an evolutionary way.
Sometimes
success is a dream that keeps you from realizing what’s important. I was living that dream, but now I’m awake.
Sometimes
the best way to lead . . . is to find a parade and get in front.
Sometimes
the blues get ahold of you just when you thought you had made it.
Sometimes
the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes
the measure of feelings is not how you feel in someone’s presence, but how
acutely you miss the person when they’re gone.
Sometimes
the most creative aspect of an idea is not how much it's different, but how
much it’s
the same.
Sometimes
the most difficult act of leadership is not fighting the enemy; it’s telling
your friends that it’s time to change.
Sometimes the people who touched you most deeply have no memory
of that chapter at all.
Sometimes the point isn’t to make people
believe a lie, it’s to make people fear the liar.
Sometimes
the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Sometimes the road less traveled is a road best left behind.
Sometimes
the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
Sometimes the terrible
elements of our political culture seem so immutable that it’s tempting to give
in to despair as a prophylactic against perpetual disappointment.
Sometimes they take her
home, but she always wakes up alone.
Sometimes
things seem to happen of their own accord.
Sometimes
to Cure
Often to
Relieve
Always to
Comfort
Sometimes
we do evil that good may come.
Sometimes
wrong, but never in doubt.
Sometimes
you don’t get to understand everything.
Sometimes
you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.
Sometimes
you meet someone and know instantly that you want to spend the rest of your
life without them.
Sometimes
you sleep through someone else's dream.
Sometimes you win,
sometimes you learn.
Sometimes you wince.
Often you exult.
Sometimes
you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.
Sometimes
we simply realize that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way
we've always done them.
Sometimes,
when everyone says you’re wrong, it’s because you’re wrong.
Sometimes you do your best work when you’ve got
a gun to your head.
Somewhere
in a burst of glory, sound becomes a song.
Song
shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us ourselves as they
might be, if we were worthy of the world.
Sooner or
later a fox runs through all its tricks and that’s when the dogs take over.
Sooner is
better. Right now is best.
Soporific
effect
Sorry
but the last time was the last time.
Sorry for
the inconvenience – we are trying to change the world.
Sorry is
a full-time job.
Sound
that is liquid horror.
Sophistication
is a feeble substitute for decadence.
Speak
last, say less
“Speaking
one’s mind” usually turns out to be a way of aggrandizing the speaker at the
expense of the helpless listener.”
Specialization
keeps you from learning from your mistakes.
Speech
can be free, but words matter.
Speech is free. Lies, you pay for.
Speech is
silver, silence is golden.
Speed is
God and time is the devil.
Speed is useful only if you're running in
the right direction.
Spend
each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
Spend
less time fixing flops and more time exploiting advantages.
Spend your time doing things that you can do better than most
people
Spending
money easy; making money hard.
Spin
control is like changing the tires on a moving car.
Spit bubbles blown by conceited airheads.
Spray
& pray
Spreading
the word - like lighting one candle from another - doesn't diminish the first,
it just doubles the illumination for all
Springsteen’s
early music is to rock ‘n’ roll what west side story is to real gang warfare.
Squander money, you may earn it back. Squander time, it is
gone forever.
Stability
cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.
Staff ink
stinks (politician’s motto)
Stagecraft
is statecraft.
Stainless
steel is “poor people’s platinum”.
Standards
of living rise not because people work harder but because they work smarter.
Star
spelled backwards is rats.
Stardom
used to be predicated on a mystique derived from scarcity. Now it’s predicated
on a familiarity derived on ubiquity.
Stars at
the top come out of the community you empower at the bottom.
Start by
doing things by hand that you later plan to automate.
Start-up
– a race against insolvency.
Start-ups
and speed-ups.
Start-ups
run out of money, but big companies don't.
So, they tend to keep mediocre projects going for too long.
Statistics
are no substitute for judgment.
Stay away
from pity parties.
Stay focused
and keep shipping.
Stay in the moment.
Stay
loose enough from the flow to observe, calibrate and refine.
Stay ready so you don’t
have to get ready.
Staying
out of the quicksand is much better than getting a good deal on a towing
contract.
Staying
together is then no longer a choice but a duty.
Steel
loses much of its value when it loses its temper.
Stocks
are sold, not bought.
Stop advertising and start innovating.
Stop
being nice; start being kind
Stop
hustling and you sink without a trace, but move a little too swiftly, and you’d
drown.
Stop it
some more.
Stop making excuses for not doing anything because you can’t do
everything.
Stop playing with your food.
Stop trying
to be liked by everybody. You don’t even like everybody.
Stop
wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Stop when
you’re finished.
Stop
worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
Stories about the future create the
future.
Stories
are just dressed-up data with a soul.
Stories
are the lies we like.
Story is
a way to build connection.
Storytelling
is the ability to put facts into context and deliver them with emotional
impact.
Straight
but not narrow.
Strangeness
escorts sunshine
Strangers
to friends, friends to lovers, then strangers again. (Isn’t It Strange?)
Strangers
to ourselves.
Strategy
is not a long action plan-it’s the evolution of a central idea through
continually
changing circumstances.
Strategy
is the commitment of present resources to future expectations.
Strategy
is what you don’t do.
Streetlight Effect: we look for the keys under the streetlight not because
that’s where we dropped them, but because that’s where the light is.
Strength
attracts money.
Stress is
an orthogonal dimension.
Stress is the trash of modern life, we all
generate it, but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and
overtake your life.
Strip
mining is, by definition, unsustainable.
Strive
for excellence, not perfection.
Strive to
become the partner of choice.
Striving
for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection-in practically
anything - is both neurotic and futile.
Strong and wrong
beats weak and right. (Bill Clinton)
Strong
emotional attachment stems from basic insecurity.
Structure
is essential. If you’re going to commit suicide, you need a building to jump
off of.
Structure
is stronger than steel.
Students
need to be inspired – not extrinsically motivated – inspiration happens from
within.
Students who are open to new knowledge will
learn. Students who aren’t, won’t.
Studying
finance in Chicago is like studying Catholicism at the Vatican
Stupid is
a thing. Intelligence is also a thing that is noble and to be aspired to and
not derived from a place of privilege that demands apology and self-flogging.
Stupid is
forever.
Stupid
people shouldn’t breed.
Stupidity is knowing
the truth, seeing the truth but still believing the lies. And that is more
infectious than any other disease.
Stupidity
is not my strong suit. (Valery)
Stupidity
is the rejection of knowledge.
Stupidity-with-confidence.
Sturgeon’s law: Ninety
percent of everything is crap
Style
is
Style
is n
Subcultures
aren’t defined by outsiders passing judgment; they are defined by participants.
Substituting
rules for judgment starts a self-defeating cycle, since judgment can only be
developed by using it. You end up with
an army of people who live by rote rather than reason, and whose reason cannot
be depended on.
Subtle
and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is
inaudible. Thus, he is master of his
enemy’s fate.
Subtlety
isn’t everything; it’s everything else
Success. Complacency.
Failure. Struggle. Breakthrough.
Success.
Success
comes from learning from failure, not success.
Success
didn’t spoil me; I’ve always been insufferable.
Success
happens when opportunity meets preparation.
Success
in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Success
in reform movements is won when an energetic minority presents an indifferent
majority with a fait accompli which
is then accepted.
Success in tech almost necessarily involves
exploitation.
Success
is a child of audacity.
Success
is a journey, not a destination.
Success
is a little about luck and a lot about know how.
Success
is a numbers game.
Success
is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Success
is about consistency.
Success
is all about creating and maintaining a sustainable edge.
Success
is almost never linear.
Success
is best when it’s shared.
Success
is enriched when achieved through cooperation but only diluted when it comes at
the expense of others.
Success
is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Dale Carnegie)
Success
is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Success is having the people whom you love love you.
Success is having what you want and wanting what you have.
Success is like a mountain that keeps
growing ahead of you as you hike it.
Success is measured by
the level of mastery you show, not how hard you work.
Success
is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius.
Success
is more attitude than aptitude.
Success
is never final. Failure is never
fatal. It's courage that counts.
Success
is not about starting, it’s about finishing.
Success
is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success
is on the far side of failure.
Success is the ability to move from one disaster
to the next with no loss of enthusiasm. (Churchill)
Success is the by-product of
preparation.
Success
is the worst of all the drugs in Hollywood.
Success
is what happens while you are trying very hard to be as good as you think everyone
else is.
Success
is when you look around and can't find anyone who does it better than you.
Success
isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Success is the ability to spend time the way you want to spend
it.
Success
knows no shortcuts.
Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.
Success
only hits a moving target.
Success
requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of
results. Momentum will then produce ten
units of results with each unit of effort.
Success
requires hard-core differentiation.
Success
usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Successes
combine reasonable talent with the ability to keep going in the face of defeat.
Such as
we were we gave ourselves outright. (Robert Frost)
Such good
grace in so bad a mood.
Such is the power of mercy over time that friends can go silent
for years and then pick up in mid-sentence, being ourselves only more so.
Suck It
and See
Sue’s 5
Rules: (1) Don’t lose a deal over money. (2) Don’t remind them. (3) Don’t tell
them the truth. (4) Don’t lie to them. (5) Know the Spouse. (Sue Mengers)
Suffering,
or the prospect of it, is the price we're willing to pay for the bonds we make.
Suffering
is the sole origin of consciousness.
Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.
Suicide:
a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Suicide
is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Sumus
quod sumus. (We are what we are.)
Super
Users
Supply is
sweet, but nothing works without demand.
Suppose
the mess they made is inseparable from their accomplishments?
Suppressed
ferocity.
Sure
things insure small margins.
Surprise is an underrated commodity in
politics, for it denies opponents the chance to get their insults in first.
Surprises
are for birthday parties, not board meetings.
Surrender
gracefully the things of youth.
Surround yourself with smart
people who’ll argue with you.
Surrounding
yourself with dwarfs doesn't make you a giant.
Survival
is based on observing and understanding others, not revealing yourself.
Swans
don't swim in the sewer.
Swearing
is an expression of anger. An admission of a loss of control.
Sweaty
and ready.
Swimming
with bike chains around your neck.
Symbols
are more meaningful than things themselves.
Sympathy
is like junk food. It has no real
nourishment. The emptiness comes back
very quickly. And nothing gets
accomplished in the meantime. There is
never, really, any release from the consequences of adversity until you decide
to do something about them.
Sympathy
is not a synonym of empathy: Empathy
means understanding; sympathy means agreeing or embracing.
Systems,
not smiles. (Carl Sewell)