Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Verbal skills

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    A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men.  I just want to say to the authors of that study: “Duh.”Conan O’Brien

  • Talent

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    If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.Sir Joshua Reynolds

  • Learning to swim

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    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

  • Today

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    Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.Og Mandino

  • Relationships

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    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

  • Communicating

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    Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.Joel Barish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Success

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    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