Thursday, August 31, 2017

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

        — Aristotle

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

“Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.”

        — William Safire

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”

        — Billy Wilder

Monday, August 28, 2017

“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.”

        — Millard Fuller

Friday, August 25, 2017

“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

        — W. A. Nance

Thursday, August 24, 2017

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

        — Jean Baptiste Colbert

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

“The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

        — John Ruskin

Monday, August 21, 2017

“Cleaning code does NOT take time. NOT cleaning code does take time.”

        — Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin)

Friday, August 18, 2017

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

        — Josh Billings

Thursday, August 17, 2017

“Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working as soon as you open Windows”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

“Don’t judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

“Decorate yourself from the inside out.”

        — Terri Guillemets

Monday, August 14, 2017

“Too much software productivity is measured by how far the bullet is from the gun, rather than how close it is to the target.”

        — Richard Dalton (@richardadalton)

Friday, August 11, 2017

“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”

        — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Thursday, August 10, 2017

“I’ve been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.”

        — Lee Grant

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

“We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?”

        — Dorothe Deluzy

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

        — C. S. Lewis

Monday, August 7, 2017

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.”

        — Kathryn Carpenter

Friday, August 4, 2017

“Treat others as ends, never as means.”

        — Dag Hammerskjold

Thursday, August 3, 2017

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

        — Scott Adams

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

        — Garrison Keillor