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Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
- Steve Jobs
Stories do not end.
- Anais Nin
Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
- Andrew Carnegie
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
- Andrew Carnegie
Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept
- Andrew Murray
I guess that was the forerunner of our Saturday morning meetings. We wanted everybody to know what was going on and everybody to be aware of the mistakes we made. When somebody made a bad mistake—whether it was myself or anybody else—we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next days work.
- Sam Walton
DAVID GLASS: "Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.
- Sam Walton
Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.
- Samuel Johnson
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
- Samuel Johnson
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.
- John Adams
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations.
- John Adams
Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.
- John Bevere