For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

 

[the GOAT]

The ultimate high: a man's abilities equaling his opinion of them.

 

[the GOAT]

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

 

[P.M.P.]

 

[the GOAT]

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

 

[the GOAT]

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

 

[the GOAT]

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

 

[the GOAT]

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

 

[the GOAT]

During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

 

[the GOAT]

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

 

[the GOAT]

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

 

[the GOAT]

There is one thing about being President, no one can tell you when to sit down.

 

[Marshy]

@the GOAT, new avitar.

 

[the GOAT]

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

 

[the GOAT]

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

 

[the GOAT]

Sometimes you're outside your core competency. Level 3 is one of those times but I've made a bet on the people and I feel I understand the people. There was a time when people made a bet on me.

 

[the GOAT]

You are daughters of God. If each one of you could only have a sure knowledge of this for yourself, you would have a sweet peace in your heart and confidence to meet any challenges life may bring.

 

[the GOAT]

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

 

[the GOAT]

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

 

[the GOAT]

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought go to away and write a book about it.