Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Employees

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    Good employees follow processes. Great employees tweak processes. Exceptional employees find ways to reinvent processes, not just because they are expected to … but because they just can’t help themselves.Unknown, but I first ran across it on Linkedin

  • Could be worse

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    On average, we live pretty well; worse than last year, but definitely better than next year.Noticed in retweeet from tweet by user Julia Ioffe, @juliaioffe, dated 2020-09-28 and attributed as Russian saying

  • Ingenuity

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    The thing about human ingenuity is that when there is a sharp need for something, it tends to crystalize in discovery.Irving Finkel, Assyriologist, Nova S47 E11: A to Z the First Alphabet

  • Best advice Warren Buffett ever got

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    “He said, ‘Warren, you can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow.’ It was such an easy way of putting it. You haven’t missed the opportunity. Just forget about it for a day. If you feel the same way tomorrow, tell them — but don’t spout off in a moment of anger.” Thomas Murphy…

  • Sacred cows

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    Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.Abbie Hoffman

  • A.D. 2020

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    I’m sorry [Insert something miserable here] happened.  Now let’s get on with our miserable lives.Last Week Tonight 2020-06-29>

  • Fear not

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    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will…