No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
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Thought for the Week – July 22, 2013
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Thought For The Week – July 15, 2013
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Thought for the Week – July 8, 2013
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results, all the rest are costs.
Peter Drucker
Thought for the Week – July 1, 2013
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison, Harper’s Monthly, 1932
Thought for the Week of June 17, 2013
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
Thought for the Week of June 10, 2013
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ‘Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.’ I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have – When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
Harry S Truman
Thought for the Week
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
-Richard Feynman
Thought for the Week
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
