Category: Quotations
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Learning to swim
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, “Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.”Paula Poundstone
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Relationships
Relationships are hard. It’s like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks’ notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.Bob Ettinger
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Communicating
Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.Joel Barish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Success
The [application] development isn’t successful if the infrastructure team that builds the physical system isn’t successful. The infrastructure team isn’t successful if the operations team doesn’t know how to measure the system. They all are measured in their success based on the final impact to the business.Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman
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Choosing
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there is a man on base.Dave Barry
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Responsibility
Although all men share a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his personal salvation for himself. We can help each other find the meaning of life, but in the last analysis, each is responsible for finding himself.Thomas Merton