"If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck."

-- John D. MacDonald

#Cards Quotes #Deck Quotes

“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
“I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.”
“No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.”
“The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.”
“In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago,”
“The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too.”
“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”
“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.”

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