"Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters."

-- C. Northcote Parkinson

#Discovery Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the same as being in Vermont. Since I grew up on the East Coast I miss that weather all the time. You'd think I'd get used to not having it, but I don't.”
“The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.”
“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”
“I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, heâ€™ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.”
“One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.”
“When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.”
“You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pÃ¢tÃ©; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.”
“Courage is exhilarating.”

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