Morning Coffee Quotes

Smoky Mountains - Summer 2008

"Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
- Leo Aikman

"For most leaders, the great challenge is not understanding the practice of leadership: It is practicing their understanding of leadership."
- Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan

"As long as the world keeps spinning, we're gonna be dizzy, and we're gonna make mistakes."
- Mel Brooks

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
- Paul Klee

"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."
- Dwight W. Morrow

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."
- Niels Bohr

"An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day."
- D.H. Lawrence

"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James

"Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard."
- Unknown

"Be not simply good, be good for something."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
- Henry Clay