Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.
That's a girl's life for the rest of her days- somewhere between a lollipop and shots.
No one really understands the grief or joy of another.
Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.