We Must Suffer the Screwball Gladly

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The freedom to make mistakes provides the best environment for creativity. – Frederic Amiel




Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth. – Bernice Fitz-Gibbon



More creativity is the only way to make tomorrow better than today. – anonymous



It is intelligent to ask two questions: 1) Is it possible? 2) Can I do it? But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: 1) Is it real? 2) Has my neighbor done it? – Soren Kierkegaard



People support what they help create. – anonymous



The various admirable movements in which I have been engaged have always developed among their numbers a large lunatic fringe. – Theodore Roosevelt



There is a correltation between the creatice and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. – Kingman Brewsters

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The Poor Could Make a Wonderful Living - If the Rich Could Hire People to Die for Them

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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish proverb

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. – Sophocles

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. – Theodore Roosevelt

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. – Gian Carlo Menotti

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. – Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. – Norman Cousins

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James

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The First Duddy in Life

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In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. – Bible

A man that cannot sit still – and cannot say no – is not fit for businss. –Samuel Pepys

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. – A. H. Weiler

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. – Publilius Syrus

It is much safer to be feared than to be loved, when you have to choose between the two. – Niccolo Machiavelli

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered. – Oscar Wilde

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No Manager ever Won No Ballgame

The best executive is the one who has the sense to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. – Lee Iacocca

The Lion Tamer School of Management: Keep them well fed and never let them know that all you’ve got is a chair and a whip. – anonymous

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on “human relations” the group is probably too large. – Peter Drucker

No manager ever won no ballgame. – Sparky Anderson

The day will happen whether or not you get up. – John Ciardi

Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest part will be left when you’re most tired. Get the big one done – it’s downhill from then on. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Judge a Man by What He Laughs At

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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat in a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman who troubles are worse than your own. – Nelson Algren

I shut my eyes in order to see. – Paul Gauguin

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. – Wilson Mizner

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. – Theodore Roosevelt

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy. – Logan Pearsall Smilt

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. – John Le Carre

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain