Fight or Flight

I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing him again. I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling. My reality check bounced. On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key. I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier. You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Everybody is somebody else's w...

63% of all statistics are made up... including this one. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. All of your co-workers are fools. You must learn to pity and tolerate them. An optimist is simply a pessimist with no job experience. And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. Change is good. You go first. Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Feedback is a business term which refers to the joy of criticizing other people's work. This is one of the few genuine pleasures of the job, and you should milk it for all it's worth. For every person who thinks up a magnificent breakthrough idea, there are a hundred who are nothing more than mindless and unimportant implementers of the ide...