"Helping people develop their own brilliance is much more effective than giving them yours"

-- Garrison Wynn

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.
“Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.”
“[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.86
“We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.”
“If frogs could fly - well, we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?”
“This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.”
“Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
“We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.”

Source : "Apple's Tim Cook: We're Fine Without Steve Jobs (AAPL)" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2009.

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