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)
N
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 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.
N
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)
N
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)
N
N
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.