As I do every year about this time, I’m clearing out the “Favorite Quotations” section from my Facebook profile to make way for the new quotes I will undoubtedly amass in 2009. I think there are some really great quotes in here, so enjoy:
“The question isn’t: who’s going to let me, it’s: who’s going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Dr. Benjamin Spock
“Vi veri veniversum vivus vici” – a German gentleman named Dr. John Faust
“When you have a difference of philosophy with your boss, he owns the philosophy and you own the difference.” – Former Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne on being fired
“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – General George Patton
“…discernment is about the intersection of three things. Discover what brings you joy. Discover what you’re good at. Discover what the world needs. The intersection of those three things at any given moment is your calling.” – Jeff Staples paraphrasing his professor
“I see you’ve got a vibrator there… that reminds me of a story of something that happened in church the other week!” – Jeff Staples
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” -Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
“Remember when math used to have numbers?” – Trevor, commenting on the lack of numbers (none actually) on one of the examples on the board in Feedback Control Systems
“Some days you wake up and immediately start to worry. Nothing in particular is wrong it’s just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble.” – Jenny Holzer
“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.” – Walter Chrysler
“The Love of God is not a mere theory or an abstract thought. The Love of God is an event…it’s not a theory, it’s an event. Love Happens.”
-Earl Palmer
“…in a free country, people are supposed to make their own decisions. You can’t legislate virtue.” -Dr. Ron Paul
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