Owen Marshall quotes

“Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.”
-- Owen Marshall

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“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.”

“The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.”

“We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.”

“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from”

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.”

“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”

“The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.