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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
The details are not the details. They make the design.
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster horse.
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
A players hire A players; B players hire C players.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Done is better than perfect.
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
No one will tell you to do it. If it’s important, think about it, set a time to do it, and do it.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Perfect valour is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
Make it releasable, then make it perfect.
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
Think that this day will never dawn again.
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.
If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
The fishing is best where the fewest go.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.