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in Contributing Blogger on Jul 30, 2009
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Quotable Quotes
A good listener helps us overhear ourselves. –Yahia Lababidi
He that would have fruit must climb the tree. –Thomas Fuller
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. –Max Ehrmann
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. –Malcolm Forbes
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. –Peter Drucker
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. –Albert Einstein
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. –Anton Chekhov
How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’. –Martin Luther
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. –Martin Fowler
Posted by: Tim Jones
in Contributing Blogger on Jul 30, 2009
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Quotable Quotes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. –Oliver Wendell Holmes
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. –François de la Rochefoucauld
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of. –Jacob M. Braude
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. –Ivan Goncharov
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. –Robert Louis Stevenson
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. –Red Auerbach
