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Picasso On Learning

by Ron Bieber on Saturday, April 12, 2008

Found this quote from Picasso on Twiiter from @LeMec (the_mindstorm) and really liked it:

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Picasso

Sounds a lot like a quote that I have in my library, but more brilliant. I think I’ll add this one.

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More Great Quotes, These from Serenity

March 30, 2008

We watched the movie Serenity last night, and a pulled a couple quotes that I really enjoyed out of them:

“She’s starting to damage my calm” — Jayne (guy from crew of Serenity)
“That’s my motto, or it will be if I ever have a motto.” — Mr. Universe

I’ll be looking for any situation to [...]

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Favorite Tweet Fragment for Friday 3/28

March 28, 2008

Favorite tweet fragment of this morning goes to James Governer:  ”ideas are nothing, execution is everything”

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Quote For Today

June 19, 2007

“…the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” – Steve Jobs (quote from Quotiki)

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A Couple More Quotes on Change

May 3, 2007

I’m re-reading Persuasion Engineering by Richard Bandler and John LA Valle, after recently taking an “influence and persuasion” training.
I’ve always enjoyed Bandlers work. I saw him speak once and he was entertaining and intense. He is definitely the source of a lot of good quotes on change.
Two of them I hit [...]

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Machiavelli Quote on Change

May 3, 2007

I heard this Machiavelli quote on the latest edition of the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Podcast, which was a talk given by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP:

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the [...]

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Quotiki: A Social Site for Quote Man

November 23, 2006

As I was upgrading our Subversion software to 1.4.2 yesterday once everyone had left for the holidays (I’m really trying to keep up on this), I started browsing through LifeHacker, a site that Jason Calacanis has mentioned quite a few times on the Gillmor Gang and on his personal blog.
While browsing the site, I came [...]

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Quote Man

November 5, 2006

Photo by rbieber
Over the recent months I’ve started grabbing quotes I run across and posting them on my door. I’ve received some comments on them, but they are there mostly to help me keep perspective.

The picture is kind of hard to read unless you blow it up, so here are the quotes:

Without deviation from [...]

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Lean Principles from the Source

October 8, 2006

I’ve started reading The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From The World’s Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey Liker. I’ve figured that as my curiosity peaks on Lean Development and Lean Principles in general, I might as well go to the source.
Chapter One opens with a quote from Fujio Cho, the president of Toyota Motor [...]

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Perfection

September 17, 2006

I’m currently reading Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones in my quest to learn more about lean principles in general.
During my reading this evening, I came across this quote that I really liked.

Perfection is like infinity. Trying to envision it (and [...]

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Frank Zappa On Failure

February 17, 2006

I mentioned earlier that I was reading The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso. I have found so much value in this book that I’m not even really sure how to review it. That will come later.
I did think it would be valueable to quote [...]

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Cool Frank Zappa Quote

February 15, 2006

While reading the book The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa, I came across the following quote that is probably the coolest one I’ve ever heard. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible”. I’ll be posting a review of the book sometime soon, but I definitely wanted to [...]

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Favorite Quotes

August 12, 2004

Many times I find it helpful to remember certain things that I have heard or read in order to keep things in perspective. I really like these quotes a lot and find them really useful from time to time.

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly while you learn it.” – (friend) – [...]

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