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The physicist Max Planck famously said that science advances one funeral at a time. He meant that only when one generation passes away do new theories have a chance to root out old ones.

"The banquet is in the first bite." Taking this adage to heart will help you enjoy your food and eat more slowly. No other bite will taste as good as the first, and every subsequent bite will progressively diminish in satisfaction. Economists call this the law of diminishing marginal utility, and it argues for savoring the first few bites and stopping sooner than you otherwise might. For as you go on, you'll be getting more calories, but not necessarily more pleasure.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic."

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

The cliche in medical diagnostics is "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." In other words, don't ignore the base rate of what is most likely, given the symptoms.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

"We need to learn the slow 'yes' and the quick 'no.'

We've all heard about the importance of persistence. But I had misunderstood. Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently doing what's not working.

'One cannot hire a hand - the whole man always comes with it,' says a proverb of the human relations people. Similarly, one cannot by oneself be only strong; the weaknesses are always with us.

"It's not how well you play the game, it's deciding what game you want to play."--Kwame Appiah. This quote separates striving from strategy and reminds me to take a macro view of what I'm doing, like in a video game where you can zoom out and you suddenly see you've been running around in one corner of the maze.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu

Tyler Durden said it best in the film Fight Club: "The things you own end up owning you."

"As long as there is poverty there will be gods."

Key Performance Indicator It is better to have an approximate answer to the right question than an exact answer to the wrong question.

Thomas Edison, a man definitely driven by a higher cause, said, "I didn't find a way to make a lightbulb, I found a thousand ways how not to make one."

"When all is said and done, more is said than done." We are drowning in words, many of which turn out to be lies we tell ourselves or others.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, "This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing."

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Your Perception Is Not the Reality

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. --Mark Twain

PRINCIPLE 1--The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~ Seneca

"Done is better than perfect." I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

food-is-mood

Less but better.

"Do something you're afraid of every day."--often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Choose quality over quantity, food experience over mere calories. Or as grandmothers used to say, "Better to pay the grocer than the doctor."

"The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead."

"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."--Bertrand Russell

"In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet."--Albert Schweitzer

"Many a false step was made by standing still."

"Always make new mistakes!"

"Part of knowing who you are is knowing who you're not."

"The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."--John Rawls

"If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, you must go together."

[A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.] --DUTCH PROVERB

Oscar Wilde wrote that a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

But the thing about land is, as Mark Twain once joked, that they're not making it any more.

John Warne Gates described it more poetically: 'Lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.' We simply call it barbed wire.

Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.

Use laws that are old but food that is fresh.

'Messiahs are good, but scripture is better.'"

Henry Ford said, "If you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

"It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't

the last mile is always the least crowded.

"Better to go to waste than to waist."

"The tongue has the power of life and death."

"they never have the time or money to do it right the first time," she said of her client, "but they always have the time and money to do it again."

"Quitting smoking is the easiest thing I've ever done," said Mark Twain. "I've done it hundreds of times."

'Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible'

Before you can win the fight, you've got to be in the fight.