Bob Lewis famous quotes

Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
-- Bob Lewis

#Glasses #Air #Water

To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.
-- Bob Lewis

#Horse #Winning #Kentucky

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
-- Bob Lewis

#Arrogance #Covering #Excuse

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.
-- Bob Lewis

#Technology #Hype #Three

Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
-- Bob Lewis

#Ambition #Progress #Contentment

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.

He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,

The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.