Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Fear

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    A man who is afraid to make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.Monty Python comedian-turned-business consultant John Cleese, at a conference on outsourcing in Los Angeles during the week of 4 April 2005

  • Death

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    Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.Epicurus (341-270 B.C.), from Diogenes Laertius, “Lives Of Eminent Philosophers”

  • Courtesy

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    There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.E. V. Lucas

  • Called to Geekdom

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    Every calling is great when greatly pursued.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

  • Vision

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    In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Warren Buffett

  • Moving forward

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    You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror.  I can take the next thing that comes along.”  You must do the thing you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 –…

  • Progress

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    Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste.  The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Thomas Arnold Bennett