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"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"If Cupidon your heart miss, deadly your body is. (Si cupidon rate le coeur, Il touche mortellement le corps)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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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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"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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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of 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 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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"New York: A third-rate Babylon." »H. L. Mencken
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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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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"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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"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice." »Albert Einstein
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"While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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"When making personal decisions, listen to what your head says then listen to what your heart says. If they differ, follow your heart Whenever you listen to your heart, you listen to that part of you that is most interested in your well-being." »Unknown
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"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." »Ezra Loomis Pound
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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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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice." »Albert Einstein
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to." »Unknown
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"Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility." »Louise Suggs
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"But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second." »Vince Lombardi
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"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." »Golda Meir
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"Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy." »Jean Baptiste Montegut
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