Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead learn the trade. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. — Abraham Maslow
Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. — Kin Hubbard
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. — Ashley Montagu
If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. — Homer Simpson
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result. — Elspeth Huxley
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. — Woodrow Wilson
What we would like to stay the same is changing and what we would like to change insists on staying the same. — Unknown wise person
You think that you understand the situation, but what you don't understand is the situation has just changed. — Workplace graffiti
The more things change, the more they stay the same. — French proverb
Things are bad enough around here without some management guru coming around to change things. — Workplace graffiti
Having served on various committees, I have drawn up a list of rules: Never arrive on time; this stamps you as a beginner. Don't say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as wise. Be as vague as possible; this avoids irritating the others. When in doubt, suggest a subcommittee be appointed. Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular; it's what everyone is waiting for. — Harry Chapman
A committee of three gets things done if two don't show up. — Unknown wise person
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. — Richard Harness
A committee is a group of important individuals who singly can do nothing but who together agree that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and quietly strangled. — Sir Barnett Cocks
If you see a snake, just kill it — don't appoint a committee on snakes. — H. Ross Perot
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. — Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree