Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it."

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"Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!"

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"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes."

Unknown, Source on compromise   

"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer."

Unknown, Source on computers   

"Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]"

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"Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it."

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"Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it."

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"If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us."

Unknown, Source on concentration   

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."

Unknown, Source on concentration   

"Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work."

Unknown, Source on concentration
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"A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any."

Unknown, Source on confession   

"He who denies all, confesses all."

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"Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well."

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"God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back."

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"The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence."

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"True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man."

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"Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice."

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"Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation."

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"The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator."

Unknown, Source on conflict   

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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"There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it."

Unknown, Source on congress   

"A bad conscience has a very good memory"

Unknown, Source on science   

"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t."

Unknown, Source on science   

"A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can."

Unknown, Source on science   

"One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout."

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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."

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"A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed."

Unknown, Source on conservatives   

"Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don't know what's cooking."

Unknown, Source on consultants   

"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."

Unknown, Source on contentment   

"When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment."

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"Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them."

Unknown, Source on control   

"It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord."

Unknown, Source on control   

"Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind."

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"We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails."

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"Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue."

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"The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world."

Unknown, Source on cooperation   

"We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."

Unknown, Source on cooperation   

"If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative."

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"The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves."

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"A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints."

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