Best motivational quotes 21

[epoisses_]

Heard in team meeting this morning, when one of the managers assigned one more responsibility to an already overloaded team member:
"This doesn't take any time. It's just a state of mind."

Can anyone top that?

 

[Compositepro]

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgements.

 

[rickitek]

if you avoid failure, you also avoid success

 

[hokie66]

"You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."
Churchill

 

[Maui]

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.

 

[Maui]

"Competence is a rare and wonderful thing." - Eric Stromswold

 

[vthomidis]

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

 

[racookpe1978]

I have used this set in my Daily Status Reports to my bosses back at headquarters:

Have a plan.
Communicate the plan.
Execute the plan.
Have a backup plan.
Be ready to execute the standby replacement to your alternate backup plan.
When all else fails, and everything goes right the first time, always be ready to execute step 2 ahead of schedule.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You forgot, "Buy the T-shirts."

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[ornerynorsk]

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is."

Not sure of the author.


It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

 

[Compositepro]

 

[HamburgerHelper]

“There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.”
-- Edith Clarke

 

[joycejo]

Wisdom comes from experience - Experience comes from poor judgment

Don't find fault - Find a remedy - Henry Ford




John Joyce
Manufacturing Engineer
Senior Aerospace CT
NX 10 & 11.0.1 Vericut 8.0.3

If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

- Henry Ford

 

[JohnRBaker]

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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[Sparweb]

Good ones, John. Thanks!

STF

 

[Jboggs]

I had one particularly uptight co-worker who seemed to lose it whenever somebody did something he thought was stupid. As he ranted and raved I would get his attention and say, "Hey Mark!". He'd say, "What?" I'd say, "Remember this - you get paid on Thursdays. Just think about that." Calmed him down every time.

 

[Maui]

A lot of people approach risk as if it`s the enemy when it`s really fortune`s accomplice. - Gordon Sumner

 

[IssacFreeman]

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

 

[GregLocock]

Well snowflake if I run you over in my SUV I can change your life. Thanks for playing.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[JohnRBaker]

Someone just sent me this one:

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[NRP99]

1. A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali

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Motivational quotes from Movies
2. Bruce Wayne: I wanted to save Gotham. I've failed.
Alfred: Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

3. Blind Prisoner: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.
Bruce Wayne: Why?
Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?
Bruce Wayne: I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, and there’s no one there to save it.
Blind Prisoner: Then make the climb!
Bruce Wayne: How?
Blind Prisoner: As the child did. Without the rope. Then fear will find you again

4. “To make something special you just have to believe it’s special.”
– Mr Ping

5. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it the present”
― Master Oogway

6. “Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it gets agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.”
– Master Oogway

7. “If you only do what you can do, you’ll never be better than what you are.”
– Master Shifu
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8.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

9. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Eisenstein

10. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

11. Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.
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