YAHOO –
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (Yang & Filo)
Yard by
yard is hard, inch by inch is a cinch
Yawns are
contagious.
Yeah, but
you won’t be for long.
Yes, I do
see what you mean, but I don’t necessarily disagree.
Yesterday's
miracle is today's intolerable condition.
Yogi: Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi: What time is it? You mean now?
You aim
for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
You
always feel that you are not deserving.
People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes
with it, so they are surprised at the praise.
You
always know. It’s just a question of
what you admit to yourself.
You
always need a Plan B while you’re waiting to be wonderful.
You
always push away that which you want to come closest.
You are
the light that shines on me
you
always were and you’ll always be
and I had
to let you know
just this
once before I go.
You are
never beaten until you think you are.
You are
never more yourself than when you are laughing. (George Carlin)
You are
not what you write, but what you have read.
You are
only as happy as your unhappiest child.
You are
remembered for the rules you break
You are
responsible for the condition you are in.
You are
the average of the five people you spend the most time with
You are
well known, but not known well.
You are
what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
You are
what your numbers say you are, nothing more, nothing less
You are
what your record says you are. Bill
Parcells
You
aren’t a leader until others believe that you are putting them first.
You
aren’t a real adult until you have a mortgage you can’t afford.
You
barely remember yesterday because you’re so focused on tomorrow.
You
become a true New Yorker when the landmarks and hangouts that have vanished
seem more vivid, more authentic to you than the ones that actually exist.
You
become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
You
become what you think – even if you do not think so.
You
behave as though you had no talent. (Degas’s comment to Whistler)
You
belong to a small, select group of confused people.
You came
to the melting pot and melted.
You
campaign in poetry; you govern in prose.
You can
achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the
intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see the plan through to
the end. (Sidney Friedman)
You can
always count on Americans to do the right thing after they have tried
everything else.
You can
always work harder.
You can
be a great consultant to your best customers as long as you don’t charge them
for the services. Once you start charging, they’ll expect you to do everything.
You can
be sincere and still be stupid.
You can
be thinking your shit smells like ice cream.
You can
do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want.
You can
do things for other people so long as it’s not a sacrifice.
You can
eat us, but you can’t beat us.
You can
explain things to people, but you can't understand for them.
You can
fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
You can
fool all of the people if the advertising is right.
You can
get by on charm for about 15 minutes.
You can
have it all, but you can’t have it all at the same time.
You can
have many different jobs and still be lazy.
You can
have results or excuses. Not both. (Arnold S)
You can
have too much of a good thing.
You
can keep going long after you think you can't.
You can
lead from anywhere.
You can
lead horticulture, but you can't make her think.
You
can actually learn things from people who you think aren’t as smart as you
You
can love someone and still not like him very much.
You can
make a killing but you can’t make a living.
(In the Theatre)
You can
never jump higher than your behind.
You can
never plan the future by the past.
You cannot
get the ring without the finger.
You cannot
go with your pitcher to this fountain.
You cannot
see it, but through.
You can
observe a lot just by watchin’. (Yogi Berra)
You can
only stop sabotaging yourself if you don’t think you were someone else’s
victim.
You can
only tie so many tin cans around the ankles of dreamers before they run their
batteries down.
You can plan plans, but you
can’t plan results.
You can pretend to
be serious but you can’t pretend to
be funny.
You can
put steak sauce on a hot dog, but it's still a weenie.
You can
rise above many things but the law of gravity still applies.
You can
run, but you’ll only die tired. (Marines)
You can say what you
want, but the one thing that you can never say is that you
hadn’t been told.
You can
see the stars, but still not see the light.
You can
sometimes fool the fans, but you can never fool the players.
You can
surrender authenticity as an idea without giving up on sincerity as an
emotion.
You can
slap my fanny and call me Sally.
You can
teach technology but you can’t teach talent.
You can
teach television, you can’t teach curiosity.
You can
tell that a marriage is on the rocks when they speak to each other rationally.
You can
transform something important into something urgent, if you wait long
enough.
You can
turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug.
You can
watch the sun struggle into place. You
will be grateful for the silent glory of that sight, as the sun, at once
enlarging and moving further away, becomes the sky it enlightens. I am thinking, of course, of you.
You
cannot “be” evil. The element of evil is
dormant. Evil manifests itself in
action. Power and control are the active
ingredients that bring evil awake.
You
cannot create experience. You must
undergo it.
You
cannot pay respect to the dead at the expense of the living.
You
cannot spend your life preparing for future losses.
You can’t
accomplish your goal if you don’t believe in yourself.
You can’t
add value to a group until you know their needs.
You can't
add value unless you have values.
You can't
"ape" your way to excellence.
You can’t
always become whatever you might want to be although you may be able to excel
in the areas where you have gifts.
You can’t
always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might just find, you
get what you need.
You can’t
be great on the side.
You can’t
be sloppy and you can’t be slow.
You can’t
be what you can’t see.
,
You can’t
beat something with nothing.
You can’t
break a losing streak on your own.
You can't
build a reputation on what you're going to do.
You
can't change a man unless he's in diapers.
You can’t
change the physics of time.
You can't
climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
You can't
cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You can't
dance at every wedding; you can't kiss every pretty girl.
You can’t evolve yourself into
radical change.
You can’t
expect people to be something they’re not.
You can't
fall off the floor.
You can’t
fatten a chicken by weighing it.
You can’t
figure out where to drive the bus until you figure out who should be on the
bus.
You can’t
fill a pothole with data. (Tolva)
You can’t
fool others if you’re fooling yourself.
You can't
give a child what you weren't given yourself.
You can’t
grow your way out of bad economics.
You can't
have a better tomorrow if you spend all day thinking about yesterday.
You can’t
have everything. Where would you put it?
You can’t
keep a bad shrimp down.
You can't
lead a charge from the rear.
You can’t
learn anything unless you have something at stake.
You can’t
make a living, you can only get rich.
You
can't make the shot if you don't take the shot.
You can’t
out-ape the monkey.
You can’t
out-crazy crazy, but hopefully you can outrun it.
You can't
overcommunicate.
You can’t
pile enough good people together to make a great one.
You can't
play poker until you get to the table.
You can't
plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
You can't
polish a turd.
You can't
pray a lie.
You can't
put new wine in old bottles.
You can’t
really dust for vomit.
You can't
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
You can't
save your way to success.
You can’t
selectively numb emotions.
You can't
sell anything sitting on your ass.
You can’t
serve if you don’t get elected
You can’t
shoot the deal.
You can’t
solve a problem that you can’t quantify.
You can't
solve the problem with the same people who created it.
You cannot spend your life preparing for future losses.
You can’t Start it like a Car. You can’t Stop it with a Gun. (Creativity)
You can’t
steal second with one foot on first.
You can’t
stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
You can't
stuff a genie back in the bottle.
You can't
talk yourself out of problems you behave yourself into.
You can't
teach a bird how to fly. You love
it. You feed it. And one day it does
what it
wants to do.
You can’t
teach entrepreneurship, but you can learn it.
You can't
teach height.
You can't
tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.
You can’t
tell where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.
You can’t
tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
You can’t
un-GOOGLE yourself
You can't
water last year's crops.
You can’t
win a fight with a measuring tape.
You can’t
win a race if you’re in the barn.
You can't
win a race with your mouth.
You could
have been talking to a wrench.
You
couldn't afford me.
You
couldn’t run a bath.
You
deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were,
to clear your mind of trivialities.
You do
the best you can, and if you’re lucky, you take some perfect pictures with you.
You do
what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the
next best
thing. You back up, but you don't give
up.
You do
what you gotta do.
You do
what you have to do.
You don’t
always choose what you do. Sometimes
what you do chooses you.
You don’t
ask directions from someone who hasn’t been where you’re going.
You don’t
be a team. You become a team through the tough shared times when you learn that
you need each other.
You don’t
choose your passions, your passions choose you.
You don’t
finish a work of art – you abandon it.
You don't
get fired for making mistakes. You get
fired for trying to hide them.
You don’t
get harmony when everyone sings the same song.
You don't
get something for nothing.
You don't
get to choose how you're going to die.
Or when. You can only decide
how
you're going to live.
You don’t
get to move Election Day back.
You don't
have to be big to be great.
You don't
have to be cruel to be tough.
You don’t
have to be straight to shoot straight.
You don’t
have to be the best at everything; you just have to make the best of everything
You don’t
have to be ugly to be dumb.
You don’t
have to deserve your mother’s love. You
have to deserve your father’s. (Robert Frost)
You don't
have to have a lot of velocity. Control
is what it's all about. You have to
focus on
what you want to hit. Single-mindedness
is the only way to go about your work.
You don't
have to know everything, you just need to know how to find it.
You don’t
have to like everyone in your congregation, but you have to love them all.
You don't
know how, you don't know when, but you do know that somehow the ball is going
to squirt through his legs.
You don’t
know what you’re capable of until you have children.
You don’t
know where you’re going, but you know you won’t be back.
You
don't lose your discipline just because you're overwhelmed by feeling. It's not like I just wanted to vomit out my
feelings on the page.
You
don’t make the club in the tub.
You
don’t need new ideas. You can just wait for someone else to launch a great idea
and then copy every detail except his mistakes.
You
don't save time by hurrying.
You don’t
schedule serendipity – it just happens when the setting is right.
You don’t
see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it.
You don’t
shoot a man who’s committing suicide.
You don't
talk about it, you just do it.
You don’t
want to be the “bad” in anybody’s day.
You don’t
want to be the peak investor.
You don’t
win until the customer says you do.
You earn
the right to do things the way you want to do them.
You eat
what you kill.
You
either get better or you get worse – you never stay the same. (Lou Holtz)
You
either give up or get up.
You
either lead by example, or you don’t lead at all.
You
either work every day at getting better at what you do or you get worse –
nothing today stays the same for long.
You feel
like home.
You
forgot to work for nothing.
You gave
yourself an out.
You get a
bad king every once in a while.
You get
eaten up from the bottom. (Innovator’s Dilemma)
You get
into the movie business because you like movies – not because you like money.
You get
killed in the middle in the movie business.
You get
the face you deserve.
You get
what you get when you go for it.
You get
what you give.
You
Get What You Work for, Not What You Wish for
You get
your learnin' from your burnin'.
You go
from eating poorly to losing your appetite.
You go
from pushing a stone up the hill to racing down the other slide hanging on for
dear life.
You gotta
be part gangster.
You gotta
wanna.
You have
decided that the only way to become somebody in this country is first to
become no
one at all.
You have
everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself. (Seth Godin)
You have
no idea the depths of shit you have just gotten yourself into.
You have
this in common with the rest of humanity.
You have
to appear to be generous, but you have to be inherently a cheap fuck to make it
work. (the high-end restaurant business)
You have
to be hard on the issues, but you don’t have to be hard on people.
You have
to be in it for the fun or you might as well be selling shoes.
You have
to be obsessive – but this can create blind spots and limit peripheral vision.
You have
to be very careful about acquiring objects because they come to possess
you.
You have
to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
You have
to believe in something greater than yourself.
You have
to design and build your strategy into your product.
You have
to get rid of the notion of retention.
You have
to go out there, but you don’t have to come back. (Firemen)
You have to
have a short memory. (in-game amnesia – pete sampras)
You
have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince.
You have
to listen to the little man inside you.
You
have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.
You have
to take the shit with the sugar, I guess.
You
have to think anyway, why not think big?
You have
to wield the truth with care.
You have
to write faster than they can steal.
You
haven’t learned to live until you’ve learned to give.
You
just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be
made. But I just kept pushing. (Rene
Descartes)
You know
every day that you're alive.
You know,
that hooker really likes me.
You know
to the dollar
You live
life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.
You live
the results of old plans.
You look like a movie. You sound like a song. My God, this reminds
me of when we were young
You make
the rest of your kind look vaguely human.
You may
be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
You may
delay, but time will not. (Ben Franklin)
You may
not be able to control the wind, but you can always adjust your sails.
You may
not win them over but, if you hang around long enough, you’ll wear them out.
You may
think that cleverness, power or money will work on your behalf, but eventually
you will end up feeling the way you really feel.
You
measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you. (The Bucket List)
You meet
twice.
You meet
your must.
You
rarely do what you “should”.
You
always do what you “must”.
Make
success a fucking “must”.
You might
as well put your balls in her teeth.
You move
toward and become the image of yourself which you hold uppermost in
your
mind.
You must
either conquer and rule or lose and serve, suffer or triumph, and be the
anvil or
the hammer.
You must
have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range
failures.
You must
have one grand passion.
You must
know where you stop and the world begins.
You must
learn from the mistakes of others. You
can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
You must
live on the offensive.
You must
pay for everything in this world one way or another.
You need
a basis of acceptance to create the environment where someone can change if
they wish.
You need
at least one person in your life you can count on. Someone you can call when
there’s no one else to talk to.
You need
love to light the shadows on your face.
You need
new vistas.
You need
to believe in something greater than yourself.
You need
to understand something before you can change it. But if you know it too well, you might not
see how to transform it.
You never
conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be
conquered. You conquer yourself-your
hopes and your fears.
You never
forget your first unreliable narrator.
You rarely
get in trouble for what you don’t say.
You never
get over it. You just get used to it.
You never
have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
You never know how strong you are
until being strong is your only choice. (Bob Marley)
You never
know how tough you are until someone knocks you down and you decide whether you
want to get yourself up or not.
You never
know when you’re making a memory.
You never
know who's going to bring you your future.
You never
know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.
You never
learn anything by talking.
You never
learn things the way you want to.
You never
really know where you are going until you get there.
You only
get one good dog in a life.
You only
have a sustainable business if your product is better or cheaper
You only
learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out.
You only
live once, but, if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West)
You only
sell your equity once.
You ought
to have more dreams than memories.
You ought
to take the bull between the teeth.
You owe as
much to the bitter opposition … as to the kindly aid.
You owe
the world not the other way around.
You paint
for yourself first, then for your friends, and then for the people you would
like to
know.
You play
basketball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
You play
like you practice.
You punch
up, not down.
You
realize when you work for Disney why the mouse has only four fingers: he can’t
pick up a check.
You
remind me of an ant crawling up the hind leg of an elephant with rape on his
mind.
You say
I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing.
You see a
lot by looking.
You see,
the wonderful thing about Balanchine is you never notice the exits: the patterns continue.
You shall
have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
You
should never agree to surrender your dreams.
You
should never say “no” to a gift from a child.
You
should never stand between your enemy and a firing squad.
You spend
your whole life learning and then you die.
You
started but you didn’t up.
You take
money from the people who offer it to you.
You think
you understand the situation, but what you don't understand is that
the
situation just changed.
You think
your pains and your heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world,
but then you read.
You train
your dog, you educate your people.
You try to
give them the advantages you never had and what they want is the life you had.
You
understand the finiteness of life and you understand that every choice entails
making some other choice.
You
waited for its return with impatience and mounting unease.
You want
it bad, you get it bad.
You will
always be surrounded by comfort. But you
won’t always be comfortable.
You will
always find those who think they know your duty better than you know it.
You will
become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant
aspiration.
You will
go away with old, good friends. Don't
forget when you leave why you came.
You will go
most safely by the middle way.
You will
have it when you need it. It's your
character.
You will
never fail if you never give up.
You will
never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that
barks.
You will
never stub your toe standing still. The
faster you go, the more chance
there is
of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
You will
never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats
procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
You won’t
win at the negotiating table what you can’t win on the battlefield.
You would
have thought that they would have shoplifted more than that. (Atari sales)
You would
never imagine a future without them.
You
wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
You
wouldn't know a good story if it was tattooed on the end of your prick.
You write
a hit play the same way you write a flop.
You write
what you see.
You'll
always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You’ll be
older, too. And, if you say the word, I
could stay with you.
You’ll
never be a big shot among people who remember you when.
You’ll
never get anything straighter than from a customer.
You'll
never have all the information you need to make a decision-if you did, it would
be a foregone conclusion, not a decision.
You'll
never really know what happiness is unless you've got something to compare it
to.
You’ll
never remember the words of your enemies. You’ll never forget the silence of
your friends.
You'll
see it when you believe it.
Young
people today are only interested in being famous. But it's not about being famous. It's about
being good.
“Young
people wore out early – they were hard and languid. The city was bloated, glutted, stupid with
cakes and circuses, and a new expression, ‘O yeah?’ summed up all the
enthusiasms.”
Your
actions are pointless if no one notices.
Your
attitude determines your altitude.
Your best
teacher is your last mistake.
Your
brand is your promise.
Your car
mechanic knows more about your car than your doctor knows about your body.
Your data
shouldn’t show up in your creative.
Your days
are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this
lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of heaven.
Your Dog
Doesn’t Need Email – Inevitable Feature Glut
Your
dream isn’t big enough if it doesn’t scare you.
Your ears
will never get you in trouble.
Your
faith needs to be stronger than your fear.
Your family is a much more
important extension of yourself than any work
you do.
Your
first mistake is your cheapest.
Your
guests will always show up. The only one who won’t show up when you’re
desperate are your staff.
Your job
as a leader is to be right at the end of the meeting, not at the beginning.
Your lies
often reveal who you wish you were.
Your
margin is my opportunity.
Your mind
is for having ideas, not holding ideas.
Your
oldest fears are the worst ones.
Your
salary is your motivation.
Your
second act may not be your own.
Your
silence will not protect you.
Your sole
purpose in life may be to serve as a warning to others.
Your
values are a competitive advantage.
Your
vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside,
wakes.
Your
web/mobile presence is your brand
Your work
should make you happy
You’re a
clever one. Only comparatively.
You're a cookie full of
arsenic.
You’re as
sick as your secrets.
You’re
big on social media because you’re a success, not because you’re on social
media
You're
either the very best at what you do or you don't do it for very long.
You've got
to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get
there.
You've
got to be ready to bite the ass off a bear every morning.
You’re
not as smart as they say you are when you win and you’re not as stupid as they
say you are when you lose.
You’re
not paying the hookers to come, you’re paying them to leave.
You’re
not thinking, you’re just being logical.
You're
nothing if you're not excited by what you're doing.
You're
nothing in this town unless someone wants you dead.
You're
only young once, but you can be immature forever.
You’re
only young once, but you remember forever.
Youth is
a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age regret.
Youth is
a fire, and the years are a pack of wolves who grow bolder as the fire dies
down.
You've
got to be prepared to step on other people's throats.
You’ve
got to be the thermostat, not the thermometer. You want to control the heat,
not just measure and reflect it.
You’ve
got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above.
Zen has
no goals, it’s always on its way.
Zugzwang
(gr.) – a Chess position where any move
loses.
