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"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." »Doris Lessing
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"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." »Thorstein Veblen
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." »Doug Larson
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"Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel." »Mary Astor
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"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." »Russell Baker
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"Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel." »L. Ron Hubbard, www.scientology.org
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"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." »Russell Baker
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"Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire." »Fuller
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"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." »Ayn Rand
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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." »A. A. Milne
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"As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption." »Mark Twain
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"How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"New York: A third-rate Babylon." »H. L. Mencken
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice." »Albert Einstein
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice." »Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." »Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men" »Henry B. Adams
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats." »Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
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