It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer — the achiever the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
Category: Quotes from My Collection
Captain James T Kirk (William Shatner):
Risk is part of the game. You want to sit in that chair?
— Rick Berman
Question posed:
Who would you like to aim a loaded phaser at?
Answer, Jolene Blalock, well-known for playing the role of T’Pol on Star Trek: Enterprise, as interviewed for Maxim:
People who require drama like it’s their lifeblood. Even if nothing is wrong, there’s got to be something wrong.
Choose in marriage only a woman who you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
‘Don’t truth me,’ said Boaz …, ‘and I won’t truth you.’
— The Sirens of Titan
Many parents try so hard to boost ‘self-esteem’ that they forget where it comes from. We feel good about ourselves when we’re effective in the world. Help your son acquire the skills and knowledge he needs to succeed ….
An inflated sense of self-worth without underlying abilities is useless, if not dangerous.
Excellent quality is not enough. Also required is suitability. In pursuit of wrong purposes, excellence is wrong.
Employing gas spectroscopy is overkill when a simple microscope will accomplish the task. Using a simulation model to determine the optimal warehouse network may be excellent management science, but you’ll realize it’s ridiculous if you just stop to think. Common sense will suggest that you’ll need a warehouse in the New York metropolitan area, probably one between Washington and Philadelphia, one around Atlanta, around Chicago, around Houston-Dallas, in Los Angeles-San Francisco, in the Pacific Northwest, and somewhere on a line between Denver and Minneapolis. How much scientific accuracy do you need? Your imagination can tell you in a moment a great deal more than scientific excellence would have told you at great expense and pretension in a year ….
… the explanations of the superior performance that we commonly get from the most successful practitioners of capitalist enterprise, though perhaps quite accurate in themselves, are seldom more than confessions of particular experiences, offering no comparison with the experiences of others and devoid of serious analytical content. What they lack, moreover, in generality they often compensate with pomposity.
— Theodore Levitt
JR Ewing (Larry Hagman):
I’m sorry, Daddy. I let you down. I just flat gave up.
Back there at that swamp — you were gone. It was all over. Didn’t seem like there was anything worth going on for for me.
And I almost forgot—.
You left us something; you left us the company. You built Ewing Oil from the ground up. And whatever it took — you did it for Ewing Oil. And I’m gonna do the same. I’m gonna pass it on bigger and stronger to my son.
I’m back, Daddy.
And nobody’s gonna take Ewing Oil away from me, or my son, or his son.
“I swear to you: By God, I’m gonna make you proud’a me.
— Leonard Katzman, Dallas
Love of bustle is not industry.
The king had two sons — one an optimist, the other a pessimist. The king gave the pessimist everything he desired, and he gave the optimist a room full of horse manure.
The pessimist was despondent because he no longer had anything to look forward to. The optimist was as happy as he could be. ‘With all this manure,’ he said, ‘there must be a pony in here somewhere.’