Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone."

Unknown, Source on opportunity   

"Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?"

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"Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea."

Unknown, Source on opposition   

"Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts."

Unknown, Source on optimism   

"Optimism is the content of small men in high places."

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"Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train."

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"Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral."

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"Organization is the enemy of improvisation."

Unknown, Source on organization
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"The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves."

Unknown, Source on organization
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"In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense."

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"Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance."

Unknown, Source on organization   

"To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning."

Unknown, Source on organization   

"The new organization is edgeless, permeable, amorphous... constantly re-forming according to need."

Unknown, Source on organization   

"I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning."

Unknown, Source on parasites   

"If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job."

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting   

"Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring."

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting   

"The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed."

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting   

"The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"

Unknown, Source on art   

"Passion is the trigger of success."

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"The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them."

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"A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE)."

Unknown, Source on past   

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Unknown, Source on past   

"If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way"

Unknown, Source on past   

"If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it"

Unknown, Source on past   

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Unknown, Source on past   

"It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue."

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"The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going."

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"The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past"

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"Patience carries a lot of wait"

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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience."

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"A patient man is one who can put up with himself."

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"If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you."

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"Patience is counting down without blasting off"

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"Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day."

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"Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper."

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"Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy."

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"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."

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"The best way to end a war is not to begin it."

Unknown, Source on peace   

"Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun."

Unknown, Source on peace   

"Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God."

Unknown, Source on peace