SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES and THOUGHTS source: http://www.tamiu.edu/~slunce/Myquotes.html

"Never listen to people who say you can't do it. Above all, believe in yourself and in your dreams." -- DAT TAN NGUYEN, Dallas Morning News, Dec. 12, 1999

"Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led." -- WARREN G. BENNIS

"The ruling hierarchy tends to act to maintain the status quo out of self-preservation. It will, in yielding to pressure from underneath, introduce only such social and economic changes as will in the long run consolidate its political security and standing. But beneath the imposed establishment pattern the contrary revolutionary pattern is continuous." -- CHARLES ERIC MAINE, Alph, p. 56, (1972)

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the morning to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act upon their dreams with open eyes, to make the dream possible." -- T.E. LAWRENCE, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." -- STEPHEN HAWKING, Lucasian Professor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

"Some people think that they are concentrating when they're merely worrying." -- BOBBY JONES, quoted in Golf Magazine, December, 1999

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." -- MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS, Roman Emperor (121-180 CE)

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." -- EVAN ESAR

"Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if one went to Harvard)." -- EDGAR R. FIEDLER

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they are unable to do it themselves." -- BRENDAN BEHAN (1923-1964), Irish author and satirist

"Everything of value was once a dream." -- CARL SANDBURG

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." -- ISAAC NEWTON

"Since Liebnitz, there has perhaps been no man who has had full command of all the intellectual activities of his day." -- NORBERT WEINER, p.3 of CYBERNETICS, M.I.T. Press, 1961

"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." -- VINCE LOMBARDI (1913-1970) US football coach

"Do ... or Do Not, ... there is no try." -- YODA, The Empire Strikes Back

"Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a one-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes." -- DAVE MARR, quoted in Golf Magazine, December, 1999

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is in the doing something else." -- TOM PETERS, The Search for Excellence

"The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him." -- P.G. WODEHOUSE, quoted in Golf Magazine, December, 1999

"If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business." -- B. C. FORBES

"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it." -- HAROLD GENEEN, CEO

"Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses." -- BRUCE HENDERSON

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." -- HENRY FORD

"Education is light; lack of it is darkness." -- RUSSIAN PROVERB

"In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And they won their freedom. Forever." -- MEL GIBSON as William Wallace, Braveheart

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards a ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may be cast." -- LEONARDO da VINCI, 1452 - 1519

"There are three kinds of people...the few who learn by reading...the few who learn by observation...and the rest of us who have to touch the electric fence ourselves." -- author unknown

"If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough."-- attr. to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard

"When the student is truly ready to learn, a teacher will appear." -- from Zen Philosophy

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."-- ARISTOTLE

"Restlessness is discontent-- and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." -- THOMAS EDISON

"Football is like life--it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority." -- VINCE LOMBARDI

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -- MUHAMMAD ALI

"Winning is not a sometime-thing, it is an all-the-time thing."- VINCE LOMBARDI

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."-- SENECA

"The measure of the man is what he does with power." -- PITTACUS (650?-569? BC)

"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most." -- THUCYDIDES (circa 470-400 BC)

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." -- THOMAS PAINE, The American Crisis, Chapter 1, 1780.

"Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice, made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today! We choose freedom and the dignity of every life!" George W. Bush, January 29, 2002, State of the Union Address

"Duc, sequere aut de via decede! (Lead, follow or get out of the way!)" attrib: Vince Lombardi, Gaius Julius Ceasar, George S. Patton, Jr., and many others

Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: “There's always one more bug.”

"If a man would move the world, he must first move himself." -- Socrates

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." - Joan Baez

"We are always getting ready to live but never living." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."-- Japanese Proverb

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." - Bertrand Russell

"He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave." -- William Drummond

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." -- Albert Einstein

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." -- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." -- Mark Twain

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." -- Sophocles

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company." -- George Washington (1732-1799), US president, soldier, surveyor, from his "Rules of Civility."

"Until philosphers are kings, or the kings and princes of the world have the spirit and power of philopsophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one...cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race." -- Plato

"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE - 3 BCE), Roman statesman, scholar, orator

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." -- Jack Penn

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." -- William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943), U.S. educator, journalist

"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist

"How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." -- Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Address, Jan 1965

"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there." -- LEE IACOCCA

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790)