"People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles."

-- Phyllis Bottome

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“I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.”
“I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.”
“Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.”

Source : "The Electric Brain". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.
“Prepare to win, or lose to someone who is.”
“Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.”
“I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.”
“When you're expecting a baby, there's a lot you can plan for, but when it happens early you just have to jump into it. Whatever plans you had, everything goes out the window.”
“It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 115), 1968.

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