Sayings

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Sayings worth remembering

On life

• "He who quotes others is an idiot" - Thomas Jefferson
• "Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka." - Viktor Chernomyrdin
• "To answer before listening -- that is folly and shame." - Proverbs 18:13
• "Some name it disappointment and become poorer, others name it experience and become richer" - Siegmund Warburg
• "If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging." - Brene Brown
• In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice." - Viktor Frankl
• "Maybe it is time to resign as general manager of the universe and start believing God’s promises" - Nicky Gumbel
• "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
• "It is hard to improve if we have no other model than ourselves to follow." - Nicky Gumbel
• "Example is not the main thing in influencing others – it is the only thing." - Alfred Schweitzer
• "The longest journey you'll ever take is from your head to your heart" - Attributed to various
• "Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love" - Buddha
• "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime." -- Saint-Exupery
• "Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning." -- Rose Macaulay
• "In this age, which believes that there is a shortcut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." - Henry Miller
• “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; therefore they remain bound.” -James Allen

On creativity

• "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to subtract" -- Saint-Exupery

On Development

• " The purpose of a programming language is to aid programmers in producing error-free programs" - Douglas Crockford
• "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking" - Alfred North Whitehead
• "The goal of all software-design techniques is to break a complicated problem into simple pieces." - Steve McConnell ""