George Patton quotes

From Signal vs. Noise:

A few [General] George Patton quotes:

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."

"Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results."

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."

Newton on Tact

From Sutter's Mill:

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

The definition of insanity

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

– Benjamin Franklin

Proverb

"Trifles make perfection but perfection is no trifle." (Found in an article about Ustad Ali Akbar Khan)

The sins of our fathers...

But Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness (Gen 9:23.) (Note to self: especially our fathers in the faith!)