The greatest challenge is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Quotes


"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
-- Michael Jordan



It is not unknown to me how many men have had, and still have, the opinion that the affairs of the world are in such wise governed by fortune and by God that men with their wisdom cannot direct them and that no one can even help them...

-- Niccolo Machiavelli



The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

-- Francis Bacon




"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
-- Helen Keller




The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: 

Decide what you want.             
-- Ben Stein




To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

-- Og Mandino  (1923 - 1996)



Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

-- Paul Hawken


Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
-- Paul Hawken, Growing a Business