Showing posts with label quotables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotables. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2007

"No and impossible are the words that cannot and should not exist in a go-getter’s mind."

This is confusing. Does this imply that in a go-getter's mind, he/she cannot and should not have the following sentence:
"There is no impossible thing."

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. "
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Popular Lectures and Addresses [1891-1894]

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Gathering of "quotes", let's see how many we get before permanent head damage.

"There is nothing wrong in having a strong opinion but its utter foolishness to have a fixed opinion."

Friday, March 16, 2007

Self-authored 'quotable quotes' from a staff member in the department:

"Confident optimism is the mother's milk of winners."