"When you say, 'I canâ€™t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldnâ€™t do that before.'"

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Express Yourself Quotes

“Strengthen your strengths and hire your weaknesses.”

Source : Loral Langemeier (2007). “The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing: Build Your Assets Into a Lifetime of Financial Freedom”, McGraw Hill Professional
“Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.”

Source : "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.
“The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.”
“When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.”
“The vice-presidency isnt worth a bucket of warm piss,”
“I want to be remembered as one who tried.”
“When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).”
“At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.”

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