Poems List

A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

Immature team members play a big part in spoiling everything.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

The good man is the teacher of the bad,

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

Inventors, pioneers, radicals, visionaries; these have ventured from the lonely and costly camp of minority only to be obstructed by majority-rule concepts that tolerate inferiority, hinder progress, harbor injustice, and pose limits within the decaying status quo.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?

It stands to reason that in the absence of direction, any direction will do.

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Weak men gain their object when allied with strong associates: the brook reaches the ocean by the river?s aid.

Sometimes, anticipation feels better than fulfillment.

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

The concept of internal customers suits the wimpy organization headed by a wimp who tries to appease everyone and satisfy no-one.

Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

The first organization whose atmosphere and attitude will tolerate the use of nanomation technology will be the first organization to swallow its market whole.