QUOTE A DAY - September 1, 2015

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Just the quotes...

Best,
JA

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
The Theory of Constraints is a methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor (i.e. constraint) that stands in the way of achieving a goal and then systematically improving that constraint until it is no longer the limiting factor
--from LeanProductions.com

Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
--John F. Kennedy

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men (or 'to society') to represent the results of his study as simply, clearly and modestly as he can. The worst thing that intellectuals can do - the cardinal sin - is to try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies. Anyone who cannot speak simply and clearly should say nothing and continue to work until he can do so.
--Karl Popper, 'In Search of a Better World'.

We must stop treating single studies as unassailable authorities of the truth. Until a discovery has been thoroughly vetted and repeatedly observed, we should treat it with the measure of skepticism that scientific thinking requires.
--Elizabeth Gilbert & Nina Strohminger, from "The Conversation"

There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness,
but of power.
They speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of
overwhelming grief...
and unspeakable love.
--Washington Irving


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

ANSWER: James Dewar

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