Best motivational quotes
Best motivational quotes
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Heard in team meeting this morning, when one of the managers assigned one more responsibility to an already overloaded team member:
"This doesn't take any time. It's just a state of mind."
Can anyone top that?
"This doesn't take any time. It's just a state of mind."

Can anyone top that?





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I was tempted to forgo any calculations and just write that across the top of the report, but I chickened out.
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Said to me in Saudi Arabia when code was complete but untested, and customer had a deadline to start:
"Done is better than complete"
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"Never try to teach a pig to dance. You'll end up failing miserably and only annoy the pig."
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A "safe" one that has often comforted me in tough times came from a fictionalized account of Indy racing that I read as a teenager:
"One way or another, through bruises or books, in pain or in peace we pick up a fact or two and occasionally get a glimpse of the big picture. We bleed and toil, tear and sweat, and make awful fools of ourselves at times but God willing - we learn."
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Few people on their deathbeds regret not spending enough time at work
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"Continue as if you have no direction."
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"I can't work with you, and I can't work without you.".....
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"Is it the only lesson of history that mankind is unteachable?"
--Winston S. Churchill
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Rule 2: When the Boss is wrong , Rule 1 applies.
Rule 1: The client is always right.
Rule 2: When the client is wrong, Rule 1 applies but charge them double for the rework.
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"Any water can be made potable if you filter it through enough money"
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I also like most of the rest- but one comes to mind right away:
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--Scott
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Yes, I believe that is how the old saying goes. I saw that wording changed slightly a few years back by a corporate lawyer. It was a little more "ironical"
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(You wimp)
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An example of this is Einstein's futile attempt to solve the Grand Unified Theory that consumed the rest of his life.
Someone invented the JFET 13 yrs before even BJTs could be built. Yes, he got the patent and a place in history, but that's pretty much it.
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This one has a lot of truth. Thankfully the manager went before I did.
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The second job I quit was the job I took after college. After 14 years, and after being introduced to CAD (this was in the late 70's), I left for a much better job working for the company that developed and sold us the CAD system. It was great company to work for and the people, including my boss, were great, but this was an opportunity that I just couldn't pass up and it proved to be the right move.
Actually I did quit one other job, sort of. Two years ago (next week) I retired, after 35+ years, from that job with the CAD company.
Also note that I've never been fired or laid-off from a job, although I think I did come close a couple of time
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
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Irvine, CA
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Charles Schulz,cartoonist
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... usually when someone calls asking if I can do something the next day and I'm already up to my ears ... or on a job site nowhere near home base, like right now ...
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So I'm at my desk trying to fix an errant spreadsheet and getting really tired of it, and I say to no one in particular, "I could sure use a beer right now."
The Big Boss was within earshot. A few seconds later, he slapped an ice cold bottle of Heineken in my hand and said, "Drink this, and then get back to work."
I loved that job.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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And having to deal with engineering software for over 35 years, I occasionally provided my own words of wisdom:
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ijr
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"You can't make everyone happy, you're not beer"
I like that one!
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"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert"
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Ashtree
"Any water can be made potable if you filter it through enough money"
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Churchill
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Have a plan.
Communicate the plan.
Execute the plan.
Have a backup plan.
Be ready to execute the standby replacement to your alternate backup plan.
When all else fails, and everything goes right the first time, always be ready to execute step 2 ahead of schedule.
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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
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The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
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Not sure of the author.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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-- Edith Clarke
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Don't find fault - Find a remedy - Henry Ford
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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
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UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without