"I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure."

-- Ernest Shackleton

“The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.”
“True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.”

Source : Georg Ebers (1895). “Cleopatra (Complete)”, p.179, Library of Alexandria
“I have learned over the years that the nicest thing I can do is to just say to myself, "Good Morning Darling, I love you; we're going to have a really great day today."”
“College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.”

Source : "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.
“It's always fun to talk about jazz.”
“There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.”
“What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.”
“Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.”

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