Remember: you are alone. Every time you can get help from someone, it is an opportunity: you should eagerly size it. But then, promptly return to normal mode: you are alone and you must be prepared to solve every problem yourself. -- Eric KEDJI

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. -- Matthew 5:45

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie