If you want to put some white caps on your gray matter, check out these observations.

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o “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum

o “There is nothing so practical as a good theory.” Kurt Lewin

o “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

o “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller

o “My belief has always been that timing is the major variable of entrepreneurial risk in the tech industry, and I think maybe by a wide margin.”  Marc Andreessen

o “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.”  Henry Ford

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six hours sharpening the axe.”  Abraham Lincoln

o “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”  Coco Chanel

o “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking about with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when thinking.”  A.A. Milne

o “If I had four hours to solve a problem, I’d spend the first three hours making certain that I understand what the problem is.”  Albert Einstein

o “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.”  Steven  Wright

o “Man plans and then God laughs.” Hebrew proverb

o “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison

o “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb

o “‘Potential’ means you ain’t done it yet.” Darrell Royal

o “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”  Eppie Lederer (aka Ann Landers)

o “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”  Mark Twain

o “If you’ve always done it that way, you’re probably wrong.”  Charles Kettering