"Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us..." - Quote by Voltaire

“True power and true politeness are above vanity.”

“What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.”

“Learn to cultivate your own garden.”

“At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!”

“Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.”

“You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.”

“If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.”

“When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?”

“Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.”