Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à faire. -- Xavier Tartacover

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader