ABILITY
The difference between what we do and what
we are capable of doing would suffice to solve
most of the world's problems.
— Mohandas Gandhi
Executive ability is deciding quickly and
getting somebody else to do the work.
— John G. Pollard
You're no good unless you are a good
assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be
an assistant.
— Martin H. Fischer
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do.
— John Wooden
There are two kinds of people who never
amount to much: those who cannot do what
they are told, and those who can do nothing
else.
— Cyrus Curtis
With my brains and your looks, we could go
places.
— Actor John Garfield in the movie the
Postman Always Rings Twice
ACCOMPLISHING THE IMPOSSIBLE
Man is the only creature that strives to
surpass himself, and yearns for the
impossible.
— Eric Hoffer
The difficult we do immediately, the
impossible takes a little longer.
— World War II military slogan
The only way of discovering the limits of the
possible is to venture a little ways past them
into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke
A great pleasure in life is doing what people
say you cannot do.
— Walter Gagehot
Man is always more than he can know of
himself; consequently, his accomplishments,
time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
— Golo Mann
Accomplishing the impossible means only that
the boss will add it to your regular duties.
— Doug Larson
ACTION
The great end of life is not
knowledge but action.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Action should culminate in
wisdom.
— Bhagavad Gita
Inaction may be the highest
form of action.
— Jerry Brown
There is nothing brilliant nor outstanding in my
record, except perhaps this one thing: I do the
things that I believe ought to be done .... And
when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
— Theodore Roosevelt
So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.
— Lord Tennyson
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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