Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Fear

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    The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision.  That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine.  When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.Gen. George S. Patton

  • Lifelong learning

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    You can never learn less; you can only learn more.Buckminster Fuller

  • Half empty or Half full?

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    A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.Harry S. Truman

  • Detachment

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    We do not have to get caught in the middle of other people’s issues.Melody Beattie

  • Progress

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    If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld Magazine

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    It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.Seneca

  • Proust

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    Proust describes rounding a bend in the road: he sees a stand of trees he’s seen before, but whether he first saw them in a dream or in the distant real past, he can’t say.  "I watched the trees gradually recede, waving their despairing arms, seeming to say to me: ‘What you fail to learn…