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Motivational Quotes
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
Buddha
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein
"....that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know"
Donald Rumsfeld (US Defence Secretary)
"If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative"
Woody Allen
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something"
Plato (Philosopher)
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
Albert Einstein
"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."
Donald Rumsfeld (US Defense Secretary)
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. "
Albert Einstein
"The past is a source of knowledge and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future"
Stephen Ambrose (US Historian)
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. "
Albert Einstein
"Innovations never happen as planned"
Gifford Pinchot (US Politician)
"I have no special talents. I am passionately curious."
Albert Einstein
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by"
Douglas Adams (Author "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy")
"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
"Everybody gets so much information all day long they lose their common sense"
Gertrude Stein (US Writer)
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. "
Albert Einstein
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible."
Unknown
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent"
Issac Newton
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Albert Einstein
"Assumptions are what we don't know we are making"
Douglas Adams
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll (Mathematician, Novelist)
"If Mother Nature can, She will tell you a direct lie"
Charles Darwin (Quoted by Dake : the practice of reservoir engineering , p137)
"To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
Unknown
"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
William Cowper (English Poet)
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius"
An Wang (Computer Engineer and Inventor)
"We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.”
Arnold Bennett (Novelist)
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent"
William Corbett
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.”
Gillian Anderson
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance”
Samuel Johnson
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. "
Albert Einstein
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
Albert Einstein
"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism"
Thomas Sowell (Writer)
