Rajesh Kumar

Optimizing life, one day after the next

Quotable Quotes

19 Feb 2008

Below is a list of quotes I came across in my daily readings and found interesting.

Tue, Jun 14 2005
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." --- Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist, 1882-1967

Fri Feb 15 2008 10:39 AM
"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic." --- Sportacus

Tue Feb 19 2008 10:15 AM
"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." --- Dandemis

Tue Feb 19 2008 10:49 AM
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." --- George Carlin

Thu Feb 21 2008 01:58 AM
"Exceptional people seem to do extremely well no matter where they apply themselves." --- Jon Bennett

Thu Feb 21 2008 08:53 PM
"One of the problems of hiring the best, Commander--sometimes they're better than you." --- Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

Thu Feb 21 2008 09:57 PM
"The human mind is the fastest computer in existence." --- Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

Sat Feb 23 2008 11:02 AM
"To criticize is to help." --- Japanese proverb

Sat Feb 23 2008 11:06 AM
"God's given us two ears and one mouth to listen twice as much as we speak."

Tue Feb 26 2008 09:34 AM
I suggest you go take a good long look at yourself. "I have, everyone has...they love it."

Wed Feb 27 2008 09:15 PM
"Ignorance more often begets confidence than does knowledge." --- Charles Darwin

Mon Mar 03 2008 09:53 AM
"What would you say if someone came to this interview shirtless and I gave him the job?"
"He must have worn some awesome pants..." --- The Pursuit of Happyness

Wed Mar 05 2008 11:40 AM
"Writers use the same words as other people. They just use them in a different order."

Mon Mar 10 2008 05:35 PM
"Duct Tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together."

Mon Mar 10 2008 05:35 PM
"Duct Tape is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, use more."

Sun Mar 16 2008 07:25 PM
"Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can be, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sat Mar 22 2008 10:42 PM
"Which means it's doubly important to hire the best people. Mediocre hires hurt you twice: they get less done, but they also make you big, because you need more of them to solve a given problem." --- Paul Graham, You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

Sat Mar 22 2008 10:48 PM
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." --- Edgar Allan Poe

Sun Mar 30 2008 09:36 AM
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." --- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tue Apr 01 2008 06:26 AM
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." --- Mark Twain

Mon Apr 07 2008 09:45 AM
"Most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics." --- Paul Graham, What You Can't Say

Mon Apr 14 2008 03:19 PM
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." --- C. S. Lewis

Fri Jul 04 2008 08:19 PM
"When people care enough about something to do it well, those who do it best tend to be far better than everyone else." --- Paul Graham, Mind the Gap

Mon Jul 28 2008 04:57 PM
"If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life." --- Kwan-Tzu

Wed Aug 06 2008 08:21 PM
"A mathematician is a blind man looking for a black cat in a dark room which isn't there." --- Charles Darwin

Sun Aug 24 2008 11:13 AM
"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong." --- Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Tue Aug 26 2008 11:34 AM
"Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize -- grab a chisel and get busy!" --- Steve Pavlina from the Do It Now fame

Wed Oct 22 2008 08:56 AM
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Sun Nov 23 2008 07:07 PM
"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness." --- Cullen Hightower

Thu Dec 09 2010 11:39 PM
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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