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Posts tagged "Quotes"
Everything I do, I just assume I’m going to fail. It all seems impossible. But I’m very scared of failure—you know, everyone is—and that sense of impossibility gets me to crank up the turbines. Everything mentally and physically at my disposal I pour into a project.
I want the phrase from the Soviet times about “the most just court in the world” to stop sounding just as ironic today as they did back then.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
(Source: economist.com)
I’ve never understood this bittersweet narcissism within myself. I love to wander lonely streets in unknown cities. To find a cafe and order a coffee and think to myself — here I am, known to no one, drinking my coffee and reading my paper. To sit somewhere just barely out of the rain, and declare that my fortress. I think of myself in the third person: Who is he? What is his mystery?
Roger Ebert
(Source: blogs.suntimes.com)
Most redesigns are like alcoholics going into an expensive rehab without genuinely addressing the underlying problems.
Guy Kawasaki
(Source: openforum.com)
Blaming “politics” for problems faced was a naive and convenient way to dodge unpleasant but unavoidable aspects of working with other people.
Scott Berkun in ‘The Art of Project Management’
(Source: amazon.co.uk)
