We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

Eddie Obeng

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness & growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Mark Twain

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

If the organisation as a whole is doing the wrong things the significance of the method used in software development is very small.

Bob Marshall (@flowchainsensei)

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.

Leo Burnett

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.

Jim Rohn

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook

William James

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert Simon

Humor is een prachtige waterlelie die wortelt in het troebele water van verdriet.

Godfried Bomans

People with different skills have to work together to deliver product features. Don’t build features that nobody needs right now. Don’t write more specs than you can code. Don’t write more code than you can test. Don’t test more code than you can deploy. (…) Pretty simple to describe in theory. Some subtlety in practice. A kanban is a tool, and like any tool, it is meant to solve a problem. I think kanban solves this problem more efficiently than the known alternatives.

Corey Ladas

We are what we believe we are.

C. S. Lewis

We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent failure — so why do they still fail?

Martin Cobb

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Deanna Brown

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

Brian Tracy

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.  

Albert Einstein

Wat is het nut van rennen als je niet op de goede weg bent?

Bertil Schaart

Freedom to give full attention to what you want (vs. It being held hostage by unmanaged stuff) is the GTD promise.

David Allen

'Zoals president Kennedy al zei: 'was het Homerus niet die schreef: 'originaliteit is het mooiste dat er is.'''

The key is not to prioritise what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen Covey