Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

Aldous Huxley

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

George Eliot

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Gerald F. Lieberman

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

George Bernard Shaw

Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and keep questioning yourself.

Elon Musk

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carol Moseley Braun

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction.

Cynthia PropperSeton

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

General Douglas MacArthur, In hi

They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.

Andrew Holleran