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Monday, January 08, 2007

Witty remarks 20













*A great artist is always before his time or behind it. (George Moore)

*Good people, are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. (William Saroyan)

*When someone tells you no, that is just the beginning. The art of overcoming the word no is something you must master. (James Cook)

*The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. (Mark Twain)

*The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter Drucker)

*The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

*One person with courage makes a majority. (Andrew Jackson)

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

*The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. (a saying)

*Assumption is the mother of screw-up. (Angelo Donghia)

*Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Branch Rickey)

*If you're early, it'll be cancelled. If you knock yourself out to be on time, you'll have to wait. If you're late, you'll be too late. (Murphy's law)

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