Reinstitutionalize Quotes & Sayings

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business. — Anna Deavere Smith

Spitters are Quitters — Tara Sivec

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. — Nancy Leveson

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort. — Lawrence Eagleburger

All politicians lie;
some of them steal too.
30+ year Washington columnist — John A. McCormick

Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels. — Sam Kean

There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets. — Gaylord Nelson

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. — Charles William Eliot