"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
--Herbert Simon, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today."
--Og Mandino
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"He who asks questions is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask questions is a fool forever."
--Chinese Proverb
"I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light, yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory."
--Thomas Edison
"The more you know, the more you care."
--Sam Walton
"In twenty percent of the world's most primitive languages, the word for belief is the same as the word for do. It is only when people get more sophisticated that they begin to separate the meaning of one word for the other."
--From "Talent is Never Enough," by John C. Maxwell
"And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed."
--Dr. Seuss
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
--John Ruskin
"There is a choice you have to make
In everything you do,
So keep in mind that in the end
The choice you make makes you.
--John Wooden, My Personal Best
"She's got gaps. I got gaps. Together, we fill the gaps."
--Rocky Balboa, talking about Adrian.
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