inspirational leadership quotes

Ah gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ~From the television show The Big Bang Theory, written by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Robert Cohen, and Dave Goetsch, "The Big Bran Hypothesis"



The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself. ~Nick Dandalos



No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb



It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story - especially when you're not sure which half they know. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise. ~David Moschella



If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ~Anonymous Teacher If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. ~Cicero



We don't stop at our skin. ~Dolores Krieger, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine



They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~Gardner Dickinson



Her lips were swollen, like firm buds ready to blossom. ~"The Garden," Chapter 4



Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



Quote A: �Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.� ~Terri Guillemets



I think the enemy is here before us.... I think the enemy is simple selfishness and compulsive greed.... I think he stole our earth from us, destroyed our wealth, and ravaged and despoiled our land. ~Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1949



There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. ~George MacDonald



For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. ~Terri Guillemets



No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman



We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line. ~Norm Stewart



A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



My body is a bulletin board, transmitting my condition. ~Terri Guillemets