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Lack
of charisma can be fatal.
Lagniappe
– “A small, unexpected extra."
Language
is a cracked kettle on which we tap out crude rhythms for bears to dance to
while we
long to make music that will melt the stars.
Language
can lie, movement cannot.
Larceny
is not a difficult crime to condone unless your childhood was the item stolen.
Larger
share of wallet
Lasted as
long as a sugar high.
Lasting
accomplishment is still achieved through a long, slow climb and
self-discipline.
Laughing
and crying, you know, it’s the same release.
Laughter -
the natural recognition of destruction, confusion and ruin.
Laughter
is an instant vacation. (Milton Berle)
Laughter,
like love, is a form of light fed by a particularly distilled energy from the
spirit.
Launches
are like last week’s lunch meat.
Launches
are like celebrity scandals.
Law firm:
Do We Cheat ‘Em and How
Law is
the opposite of sex. No matter how good
it is, it's bad.
Law of Conservation of Profits: When
attractive profits disappear at one stage in the value chain because a product
becomes modular and commoditized, the opportunity to earn attractive profits
with proprietary products will usually emerge at an adjacent stage.
Lawyers,
I suppose, were children once.
Lawyers
who have to be right lose a lot more cases than those who don’t.
“Le mort
est une fin de critique et un début de regret.”
Lead
cannot be made into a sword.
Lead in
the spirit of service to something.
Lead with
influence and persuasion, not authority and process.
Leaders
are made, they are not born. They are
made by hard effort which is the price which
all of us
must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Leaders
are individuals who make ordinary people do extraordinary things in the face of
adversity.
Leaders
are purveyors of hope, not of despair.
Leaders
are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the
odds against them.
Leaders
can cast shadow or light.
Leaders do not believe their or
their team’s body odor smells of perfume.
Leaders
don’t create followers; they create more leaders.
Leaders
must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something
greater than themselves.
Leaders
need to be either loved or feared.
Leadership
is a performance. You need to be
conscious about your behavior, because everyone else is.
Leadership
is a privilege and a sacred responsibility.
Leadership
is always about serving something bigger than yourself.
Leadership
is an activity, not a position.
Leadership
is learning to give whether you get anything or not. Give in the true sense of
the word; any other way of giving is simply "trading."
Leadership
is not a popularity contest.
Leadership
is the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like
it.
Leadership
is the ability to hide your panic from others.
Leadership
is the art of accomplishing
more than the science
of management says is possible.
Leadership
provides the vision, values and purpose that create motion. Management channels the energy leadership
creates. Leadership is necessarily
personal; administration is necessarily impersonal.
Leadership
should be visible. Management should be
invisible.
Leading a
large law firm is like being the only fire hydrant on a block with fifty dogs.
Lean into
the discomfort of the work.
Leap
before you are ready and the net will appear (Les Brown)
Learn by
being crushed.
Learn
from the past, don’t live there.
Learn
from those who have been there.
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
Learn not
to sweat the small stuff.
Learn
to be fast now – you can learn to be good later.
Learn to let things go. Not
everything can be fixed, finished or saved.
Learn
to live for the process again without being defined by the results as you did
when you first started.
Learn
to say “no" to the good, so you can say “yes" to the great.
Learning
does not necessarily teach understanding.
Learning
how to break silence with sound.
Learning
is a matter of timing. You acquire
knowledge when you're ready to receive it.
Learning
is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to fall back.
Learning
is not attained by chance. It must be
sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Learning
late to dance: the spirit is admirable, but the moves are awkward.
Learning
to forgive takes practice.
Learning to lead without authority
is now the only way to get anything done.
Learning
to love risk taking is a competitive advantage.
Learning
to sew because it keeps your hands away from your throat.
Least
objectionable programming.
Leave before
it makes you hard.
Leave people better
than you found them.
Leave the
rocket science to the rookies.
Leave
when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
Leave
your children enough money so that they can do anything, but not enough that
they don’t have to do anything. (Buffett)
Leaving
decisions in the hands of people who will pay no price for and have nothing to
lose by being wrong is stupid and dangerous.
Leaving
what's safe for anything new.
Legacy is
more valuable than currency.
Legal systems
are about what you have done. Markets
are about what you're going to do.
Legitimacy is for losers. The winning side in a
decision will gladly accept it without asking why. But the losing side will
accept defeat only if they believe the decision was made fairly and by the
book.
Lego
Theatre.
Lemons
ripen first. (VC adage)
Less a
passionate necessity than the shell of an old habit.
Less
showboat and more tugboat.
Less to
do with more and more to do with better.
Lest you
lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. (Aesop)
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we
shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Let him
who would move the world, first move himself.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Let me photograph you in this light in case it is the last time
that we might be exactly like we were before we realized we were sad of getting
older. (Adele)
Let no man bring you so low as to hate
him. MLK
Let our
sickness work for you.
Let
people be different.
Let the
beauty you love be the work that you do.
Let the
memory of the evening be the first thing you remember when you wake up in the
morning and open your smile.
Let the
old year and its curses end and let the new year and its blessings begin.
Let them
hate as long as they fear. “Oderint Dum
Metuant”.
Let us
have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to
do our duty as we understand it.
Let us
take men as they are, not as they ought to be.
Let us
think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Let your
conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know
how to answer everyone.
Let's
compromise and say I'm right.
Let’s do
it again but pretend it’s a real movie.
Let's go
see that film-it came in on budget.
Let’s
prove by doing.
Let’s put
some points on the board. Let’s SHOW them what we can do.
Let's rob
the train before we split up the loot.
Let’s sit
on the ground and sing sad stories of the death of kings. (Richard II)
Let’s try
to beat that.
Level 4
Leader – Follow Me. Level 5 Leader –
Follow a Cause.
Liberals
have no ideas, they have only sentiments.
Liberals are people who
would like to see things improved and conservatives are people who would like
to see things not worsened.
Liberty has
never meant the freedom to threaten the health of others.
Liberty is now a euphemism for selfishness.
Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts
written in blood.
(Lu Xun)
Lieutenants
talk tactics, generals talk logistics.
Life: 1st
half – try to be interesting to others. 2nd half: try to be
interested (in others). Lose yourself in others.
Life –
the way it really is – is a battle not between Good and Bad, but between Bad
and Worse.
Life at
court doesn't satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with
anything else.
Life
breaks everyone, and those who survive are strong in the broken places.
Life can
only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life
doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.
Life
doesn't consist of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Life doesn’t go on. It goes away.
Life doesn’t go on. It goes nowhere except away. Death goes on.
Life goes
on. It always does until it doesn’t.
Life is a
dream that keeps me from sleeping.
Life is a
marathon, not a sprint, and you just work hard.
Life is a
race - cut to the chase.
Life is all about a series of moments and savoring each one.
Life is
about “both/and” rather than “either/or”.
Life is all about ass. You’re either covering it, kicking it,
kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it or behaving like one.
Life is
bearable even when it is unbearable.
That is what is so terrible; that is the unbearable
thing
about it.
Life is
cheap but the accessories will kill you.
Life is
divided between the horrible and the miserable.
Life is
easy, it’s television that’s hard.
Life is
either a daring adventure or nothing at all. (Helen Keller)
Life is
like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
Life is like a fancy restaurant, it will always
try to seat you at the worst table you will accept.
Life is
like a grindstone. Whether it grinds you
down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.
Life is
like a roll of toilet paper. The closer
it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Life is
like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Life is
like riding the bus, it requires change.
Life is
more about attitude than skills.
Life is
more about seeing than being seen.
Life is
more than what we do.
Life is
mostly froth and bubble.
Two
things stand like stone.
Kindness
in another’s trouble,
Courage
in your own.
Life is
never fair and that’s a good thing for most of us.
Life is
never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and
purpose.
Life is
not a having and a getting/but a being and a becoming.
Life is
not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. (Santayana)
Life is
not addition, but multiplication.
Life is
not easy for any of us. But what of
that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves. We
must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever
cost, must be attained.
Life is
not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our
breath away.
Life is
not who you are, but what you do.
Life is
one fucking thing after another.
Life is
one long expectoration.
Life is
one long lesson.
Life is
only black and white in photos.
Life is
short and full of blisters.
Life is
short, art long, experiment perilous.
Life is
small. Now death, death got style.
Life is
the sum of all your choices.
Life is
too short to be little.
Life is too short to be small.
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high.
Life is
unfair. Learn from it.
Life is
what it is, but y
Life
isn’t a matter
Life
isn’t built around one opportunity – it’s many.
You have to keep pushing and grinding.
Life
isn’t fair, but it’s very fast.
Life
lives on.
Life only
demands from you the strength that you possess.
Only one feat is possible-not to have run away.
Life
shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. (Anais Nin)
Life was
better when apples and blackberries were fruits.
Life’s
greatest gift is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.
Life’s
most persistent and urgent question is “what are you doing for others?”
Lighten
the lifeboat (get with the program or leave).
Lighthouses
don’t go running around all over an island looking for boats to save; they just
stand there shining.
Lightweight
living.
Like a
bird on the wire…I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a
body at a wake. Necessary to have the event
- not expected to say much.
Like a
dog…hunt in your dreams.
Like a
dog walking on his hind legs. It is not
done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Like a
fish needs a raincoat.
Like a monkey
trying to fuck a beach ball.
Like a
moose needs a hat rack.
Like a
person who walks across a field of snow and leaves no footprints.
Like a
Sunday in TJ, it’s cheap, but it’s not free.
Like a
turkey accepting an invitation to Thanksgiving Dinner.
Like
asking someone if they want to get vaccinated with a live virus.
Like
bellbottom jeans – signs of youthful indiscretion that are best forgotten.
Like
Bloody Marys when you have a hangover. You have to go back to them, but
eventually they’re going to catch up with you.
Like
bringing a burn victim to a fireworks show.
Like
chewing aluminum f
Like
father, like son.
Like
fleas to a Great Dane. They can't bring
him to heel, but they can make his life miserable.
Like four
flat tires on a muddy road.
Like giving a pair of glasses to a blind man
Like
grabbing a gumball out of a crocodile’s mouth.
Like many
another foul art, rudeness has gifted practitioners.
Like
mining coal with your bare hands. It’s really bloody and it’s ugly.
Like
people, things thrive on good beginnings.
Like
sewing Kevlar to Kleenex.
Like
tears from a star.
Like the
color black, business mixed with anything else turns into business.
Like
trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.
Like two drunks
trying to hold each other up
Like
United Airlines, one of the worst things in the world.
Like
using your tongue to move a trackball.
Like
watching paint dry…except that paint only dries once.
Like when
the truth is spoken and it makes no difference – something in your heart goes
cold.
Like
writing in the snow in a blizzard.
Likely to
interpret any substantive concern as a sign of emotional instability.
Limited
funds are a blessing, not a curse.
Limits,
like fears, are often just an illusion. (M. Jordan)
Lipstick
on cancer
Listen
effectively
Establish
rapport
Respond
appropriately
Fact
finding
Problem
solving
Control
your own stressful reaction
Listen if you want to be heard.
Listen
less to your fears and more to your dreams.
Listening
> Learning
Listening
is an essential weapon.
Listening
is the highest form of courtesy.
Listening
to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.
Listening
to music on a computer speaker is like taking a bath with your socks on.
Listing
reasons not to try something doesn’t protect us, it imprisons us
Literacy
is not a luxury.
Literature is the last thing that we can
depend on to tell us the truth about who we are.
Literature
is the only profession where you start out as a prosecutor and end up in the
dock.
Litigating
is about toughness, but not about mean spiritedness.
Little is
more central to one’s sense of self than one’s work.
Little
thieves are hanged, but great ones prosper.
Little
things don't mean a lot, they mean everything.
Little things make big things
happen.
Live as
if everything you do will eventually be known.
Live by
what you trust, not by what you fear.
Live deep
instead of fast.
Live so
that you can always tell the truth.
Lives of
great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave
behind us, footprints on the sands of times.
Living
already a posthumous life, even as a childhood.
Living in a state of permanent vigilance is
corrosive.
Living
well is not the best revenge.
Living
simply is more like it. And, in the end, when the opportunity for revenge presents
itself, you have better things to do.
Living
with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Living
with regrets is like driving a car that only goes in reverse.
Logic
breaks like stained glass when emotions start to roll.
Logic is
the art of being wrong with confidence.
Logic
will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Einstein)
Loneliness
is failed solitude.
Loneliness
is like a hammer blow that shatters glass, but hardens steel.
Loneliness
is something you do to yourself.
Long range planning (anything over 3 years) only
exists today in order to make astrology seem reputable.
Long
Tail: Selling less of more.
Longer
meetings have diminishing returns.
Longest
word in dictionary: a lung disease:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Longing
on a large scale is what makes history.
Longing,
we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Look for
and exploit (in a good ways – by surprise and delight) moments of customer
vulnerability
Look for
the selfish motive.
Looking
back is the first sign of aging and decay.
Looking
for the solution without listening to the problem is like working in the dark.
Looking
forward to things is half the pleasure of them.
Looking
it over twice saves doing it twice.
Looking
reality straight in the eye and then acting upon it with as much speed as you
can.
Looks
like the upper hand is on the other foot.
Losers
fail to redefine their strategy based on experience.
Losing
love is like a window in your heart.
Loss can
be a powerful elixir.
Loss is
not without its curious advantages for the artist.
Lost
boys-golden girls.
Lost like
tears in the rain.
Lost time
is never found again.
Love
between equals, like an answered prayer, is hard to accommodate oneself to.
Love does
not cause suffering; what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s
opposite.
Love
doesn’t die, people do.
Love does
not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the
same direction.
Love has
nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are
expecting to give --- which is everything.
Love is a
better teacher than a sense of duty. (Einstein)
Love is a
gift; friendship is an exchange.
Love is
for those people who believe in it.
Love is
like war: easy to begin, but very hard
to stop.
Love is
never enough and often too much.
Love is
patient; love is kind; love never fails.
Love is
taking a few steps backwards - maybe even more - to give way to the happiness
of the person you love.
Love is
the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love is
too complex to be consistent.
Love
is what goes on between a man and a .45 pistol that won't jam.
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Love is
what’s left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
Love the
kid you have, not the one you wish you had.
Love those who hate you. When you love someone,
you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them
to be. (Tolstoy in Anna Karenina)
Love,
without discipline, isn't.
Lovemaking
is the red tape of marriage.
Low
barriers to entry-high barriers to success.
Low
expectations are good protection.
Loyalty
is something you pay for.
Loyalty
is the absence of something better.
Luck is a
talent.
Luck is
in the leftovers
Luck is
the residue of design.
Luck may
help a man over a ditch if he jumps well.
Luck only
comes to visit; it doesn't come to stay.
Lucky is
the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
(Walker Percy)
Lust is
no excuse for thoughtlessness.
Lying can
never save us from another lie
Lying
gets more films made than money.
Lying is
a mistake unless it’s a matter of national security.
Lying to ourselves is the root of so much
needless suffering.
Lymph –
to walk with a lisp.