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Do your best with what you know
When you know better
do better


The surest way to be late
is to have plenty of time.

                                                                  Leo Kennedy


 The shortest distance
between two points
is under construction.

                                                                  Noelie Alito


Anyone can hold the helm
when the sea is calm.

                                                                  Publilius Syrus


The reward for work well done
is the opportunity
to do more.

                                                                  Jonas Salk, MD


The past should be
a springboard,
not a hammock.

Ivern Ball


Golf without bunkers and hazards
would be lame and monotonous.
So would life.

                                                                  B C Forbes


If you want truly to
understand something,
try to change it.

Kurt Lewin


Friends come and go,
but enemies accumulate.

                                                                  Thomas F. Jones, JR.


The man who moves mountains
begins by
carrying away small stones

                                                                  Chinese proverb


People who say It cannot be done
should not interrupt those who are doing it

G B Shaw


 The closest to perfection
a person ever comes
is when he fills out
a job application.

                                                                  Stanley J Randall


Ability will never catch up with
the demand for it.

                                                                  Malcolm S. Forbes.


Talent is a flame
Genius is a fire.

                                                                  Berne Williams.


If you tell the truth
you don’t have to
remember anything.

                                                                  Mark Twain


Often the impossible
is what has
not been attempted.

                                                                  Ultimas Noticias


If you take too long in deciding
what to do with your life,
you’ll find you’ve done it.

Pam Shaw


 “Knowledge is of two kinds:
We know a subject ourselves
or we know where
we can find information upon it”

Dr. Johnson


“It’s not what you know
it’s who you know”
A Librarian is a great ally


“Knowledge itself is power”

Francis Bacon


“Man prefers to believe
what he prefers to be true”


“What some of us do not know
is very profitable to others”


“Imagination, coupled with judgement,
is responsible for
the creation of most of the great things in this world.”


“There is one form of advertisement
better than making a good show-
that is showing a good make”


Quality Assurance

“QA won’t stop you making mistakes
but it’s there to help you
prevent it happening twice.”


A stumble may prevent a fall

                                                                  English Proverb


Quality Assurance

“Never let mistakes discourage you.
there is precious instruction to be got
by finding it was wrong.”


Quality Assurance

When you aim for perfection,
you discover
it’s a moving target.

                                                                  George Fisher


Quality Assurance

Rules are made for people
who aren’t willing to
make up their own

                                      Chuck Yeager & Charles Leerhsen


It’s only eighteen inches
between a pat on the back
and a kick in the pants.

E. Joseph Cossman


“My idea of an optimist
is one who believes that
things will come right if
he works to put them right.”


“It is not the clock
that ticks the loudest
that goes the best”


“The weaker the argument
the louder the words”


Use soft words
and hard arguments.

                                                                  English Proverb 


“Blessed are the ignorant
who know they are ignorant,
for theirs is the
Kingdom of Knowledge.”


Expert: Definition:
X is an unknown quantity,
Spurt is a drip under pressure


If you assume,
you risk making an
ass of u and me


“Blame is for God and for Children”


“Prevention is better
than knowing who did it”

“Never let mistakes discourage you.`
there is precious instruction to be got
by finding it was wrong.”


“The way to gain a good reputation`
is to endeavour to be
what you desire to appear.”

Socrates


“The common law
of business balance
prohibits paying a little
and getting a lot
– it can’t be done.”
John Ruskin (1891-1900)

Resource Efficiency

“Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.”

Theodore Roosevelt

‘Know where to find the information and how to use it –
That’s the secret of success’
Albert Einstein

“You must be the change
you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi


“Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value”

Albert Einstein


‘Know where to find the information and how to use it
That’s the secret of success‘
Albert Einstein

“I have yet to see any problem,

however complicated,`
which, when looked at properly,
did not become still more complicated.”

Paul Anderson, New Scientist


“failures are the inevitable consequences
of pushing technology into new areas”

New Scientist


If opportunity doesn’t knock,
build a door

Milton Berle


“My idea of an optimist
is one who believes
that things will come right
if he works to put them right.”


“It is a wise man who
looks things over,
instead of
overlooking things.”


“Keep away from people
who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great.”

M. Twain


‘As man thinketh so is he’

Patience is doing something while you’re waiting!

we cannot manage time,
we can only manage ourselves

We always have two reasons to do something..
the logical one
and the real one!

Quality
“There is hardly anything in the world
that some man cannot make a little worse
and sell a little cheaper,
and the people who consider price only
are this man’s lawful prey.“
John Ruskin (1819-1900)


© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
31st January 2013 – 19th August 2019

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“We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis…
I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is.”



© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
31st January 2013 – 19th August 2019

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31st January 2013 – 19th August 2019

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