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Below are various quotes that Computer Hope has collected over the years
that help inspire us in becoming the best at what we do. We hope that the
below quotes will do the same thing for you. If you have a quote that has inspired
you, please let us know and if it inspires us, we will be glad to
post it.
Without the knowledge you must learn, and in order to learn you
must have the information.
- Computer Hope
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one
customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
- Gary Comer, founder of Land's End
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt
ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and
fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
-David Augsnurger
The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
– Socrates To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-Alexander Pope
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-James Joyce
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so
well that no one could find fault with it.
-Cardinal Newman
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
-Clarence Day
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
-E E Cummings
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you
can become it.
-William Arthur Ward
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-Mark Twain
Thinking is the hardest work there is,
which is probably the reason so few engage in it
-Henry Ford
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-Jonathon Swift
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
-Unknown
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture
of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic
and critically important rule: "If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want
respect, set a respectable example!"
-Denis Waitley
There's nothing more dangerous than an idea if its the only one you
have.
-Mark Twain
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I will show you a guy you
can beat every time.
-Rene Auberjonis
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want;
and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the
rain.
-Dolly Parton
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more
I have of it.
- Stephen Leacock
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
- Madonna
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be
thought to be.
-Socrates
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
-Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow
and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up
everything in its way.
-Emily Zola J 'accuse
Attitudes are more important than facts.
-Carl Menninger
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did
not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet 1664
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will he
will be sure to repent it.
-Socrates
The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher 1500's
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities.
Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one
of His creatures when He made him.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain
about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.
-Phil Lout
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of
bastards.
-R A Dickson
Business is simple. Make some stuff and sell it for more than it cost
you. There's nothing more to it than that except for a few million details.
- President of International Harvestor
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person
in the world.
- Emmett Fox
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our
friends.
- John Churton Collins
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is
always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
- Orison Swett Marden
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy
into movement without emotion.
- Carl G Jung
Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
- Peter McWilliams
The more I learn, the more I realize what little I know.
- K.C. Freeman
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of
the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
- Sir Cecil Beaton
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
- Dr. Melba Colgrove
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a
Hell of Heav'n.
- John Milton
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
- Peter McWilliams
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing
ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- Angelique Arnauld
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it
right, or better.
- John Updike
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
- H Ross Perot
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust
I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
- Nathan Hale
Virtue is its own reward.
- Cicero
Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
- Solomon Short
The hours that make us happy make us wise.
- John Mansfield
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The
problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
- Mark Twain
Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone
else.
- Nashua Cavalier
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so
simple we couldn't.
- Lyall Watson, biologist
Keeping customers is not a matter of lavishing attention upon them in
the hope that they will remember your firm. Customers stay with your firm because of the
value that is provided.
- customers.com by Patricia B.
The goal of education is understanding; the goal of training is
performance.
- Frank Bell
Genius is the ability to evade work by doing
something right the first time.
- American Salesman
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a
studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
- Midge Decter, American writer.
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
It can only be attributable to human error.
- HAL 9000
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
- Unknown
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
By failing to plan, you plan to fail.
- Unknown
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while
knowledge defines everything we know and understand, imagination
points to all we might yet discover and create.
- Albert Einstein Choose a job you love, and you'll
never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
All that is complex is useless and all that is useful is simple.
- Unknown They can because they think they can.
- Vergil (BC) When you are good to others, you are best
to yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin The measure of a person's real
character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
- Thomas Macaulay No, try not, do or do not, there is no
try.
- Yoda To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be
nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard If we had no faults we should not take
so much pleasure in noting those of others.
- Duc de Rochefoucauld A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong, which is by saying, in other words, that
he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope A man's karma is to forever turn the
wheel of life towards a better future for all.
-Unknown What we think, or what we know, or what we
believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is
what we do.
-John Ruskin There are 10 types of
people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who
don't.
-Uknown A computer lets you
make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with
the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-Unknown My software never has
bugs. It just develops random features.
-Unknown The box said 'Requires Windows
95 or better'. So I installed Linux.
-Unknown It is impossible for a man to learn what he
thinks he already knows.
-Epictetus The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the
one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's
funny..."
-Isaac Asimov True greatness is measured by how much
freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to
do what you want.
-Larry Wall What would you
attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
-Unknown
Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who
mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
-Dr.
Seuss Less is more.
-Andre del Sarto The
unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates It's
nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.
-Scooter Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
-Larry Wall Sometimes one pays most for the things one
gets for nothing.
-Albert Einstein Anyone who has never made a mistake has
never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein The past is gone, the present is never,
and the future is unknown.
-Unknown Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.
-Albert Einstein We can't solve problems by using the same
kind of thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein The important thing is not to stop
questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-Albert Einstein He who asks a question is a fool for
five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
-Chinese Proverb Try not to become a man of success, but
rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein Success is the ability to go from one
failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill Always do more than is required of
you.
- George Patton The greater danger for most of us lies
not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting
our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- Michelangelo You may be disappointed if you fail, but
you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills Within every difficulty lies
opportunity.
- Albert Einstein The richest man is not he who has the
most, but he who needs the least.
- Unknown Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it
into small jobs.
- Henry Ford Progress isn't made by early risers. It's
made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- Robert Heinlein If you don't ask the right questions,
every answer seems wrong.
- Ani DiFranco All life is problem solving.
- Karl Popper You do not really understand something
unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
- Albert Einstein The only way to predict the future is
to invent it yourself.
- Alan Kay In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is
the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more;
Whine less, breath more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all
good things will be yours.
-Swedish proverb There are no pockets in a shroud.
-Gaelic proverb Better a diamond with a flaw than a
pebble without one.
-Chinese Proverb Wait long enough and people will
surprise and impress you. When you're pissed off and angry at them
you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little
more time and they'll almost always impress you.
- Jon Snoddy Experience is what you get when you don't
get what you want.
- Randy Pausch Brick walls are there for a reason: they
let us prove how badly we want things. Because the brick walls are
there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
- Randy Pausch A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.
- Einstein
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao-Tzu
Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are
at the bottom of the barrel of crap.
- Randy Pausch The significant problems we face cannot
be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
- Einstein
It's not about how to achieve your
dreams, its about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the
right way the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come
to you.
- Randy Pausch Love does not consist in gazing at each
other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Simplicity, carried to the
extreme, becomes elegance.
– Jon Franklin Ability is what you're
capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
determines how well you do it.
- Raymond Chandler Sometimes the questions are
complicated and the answers are simple.
- Dr. Seuss Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
-Unknown We learn...
10% of what we read.
20% of what we hear.
30% of what we see.
50% of what we see and hear.
70% of what we discuss with others.
80% of what we experience.
95% of what we teach to someone else.
-Unknown If you travel too fast you have no where else
to go.
-Unknown I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
– Isaac Asimov If you think your users are
idiots, only idiots will use it.
– Linus Torvalds The greatest enemy of knowledge is not
ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
– Stephen Hawking Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I
remember. Involve me and I learn.
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