Words of Wisdom

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. ~ Natalie Goldberg

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us! ~ Julie Morgenstern

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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. ~ Henry Adam

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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ~ Eric Hoffer

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important. ~ Lisa Hoffman

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Natural Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ~ C.S. Lewis

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. - Louis Hector Berlioz

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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ~ Albert Einstein

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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can\'t buy what is popular and do well. ~ Warren Buffett

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Love is like war: easy to begin, hard to end. ~ Proverb

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One may have a blazing hearth in one\'s soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Source：第十次任務：梵谷 燃燒的靈魂 http://ukmybaby.pixnet.net/blog/post/30150230

In life it is the same as in a drawing - one must sometimes act quickly and decisively, attack a thing with energy, trace the outlines as quickly as lightning. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Source：第十次任務：梵谷 燃燒的靈魂 http://ukmybaby.pixnet.net/blog/post/30150230

I feel that there is noting more truly artistic than to love people. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

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Painting is a faith,and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Source：第十次任務：梵谷 燃燒的靈魂 http://ukmybaby.pixnet.net/blog/post/30150230

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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Choices are your life; life is your choice.

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He (George Soros) would try to go to the jugular, and say, "Do you still believe what you told me yesterday?" ~ James Marquez

Source：Soros: The Life, Ideas, and Impact of the World\'s Most Influential Investor http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071608443?ie=UTF8&tag=a0b8a8-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0071608443

All he (George Soros) asked of you is that you believe what you’re telling him, that you constantly examine and cross-examine. ~ James Marquez

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Moore's Law guarantees that the longer you wait to make an IT purchase, the more you'll get for your money.

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It is getting much harder to achieve a competitive advantage through an IT investment, but it is getting much easier to put your business at a cost disadvantage.

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most companies spend too much (on IT) and get very little in return. ~ Larry Ellison, Oracle

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Given the rapid pace of technology\'s advance, delaying IT investments can be another powerful way to cut costs.

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When a resource becomes essential to competition but inconsequential to strat-egy, the risks it creates become more important than the advantages it provides.

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The trap that executives often fall into, however, is assuming that opportunities for advantage will be available indefinitely.

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They (information technologies) are becoming costs of doing business that must be paid by all but provide distinction to none.

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Their (information technologies') very power and presence have begun to transform them from potentially strategic resources into commodity factors of production.

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You only gain an edge over rivals by having or doing something that they can't have or do.

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What makes a resource truly strategic—what gives it the capacity to be the basis for a sustained competitive advantage—is not ubiquity but scarcity.

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