"Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems"

-- Douglas Engelbart

#Problem Quotes #Coping Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.”

Source : "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.
“I let my drinking do the talking.”
“How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.”
“Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.”
“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”
“The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.”
“These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.”
“I like being liked, who doesnâ€™t? But I love being hated.”

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