#ives

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. ↗

— Robert Higgs

#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. ↗

— Julius Erving

#adult life #began #biographies #books #fiction

None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own. ↗

— Anita Borg

#devices #just #keep #lives #many

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#deep #deep down #down #immortal #know

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#age #around #experiment #fun #have fun

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it? ↗

— Ian Botham

#good #got #hasn #hundred #lives

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. ↗

— James Bovard

#agents #child #child support #daily #daily lives

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#lives #meaningless #our #our lives #really

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#born #centuries #civilizations #decades #ideologies