"I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride."

-- Paul Lester Wiener

#Success Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.”
“You should be able to grab people with ideas.”
“Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.”
“Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!”
“People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.”
“If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.”
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
“What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.”

You may also like:

Barbara Tuchman
Historian
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
Lawyer