“Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.” SuccessWinningSportsTeamShareMotivational SportsTeam Winning Author:Jim Harbaugh
“Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.” Has BeensAbleArmySpam Book:Khrushchev Remembers Source: Khrushchev Remembers
“You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.” DutySeasonsArmyFishesFortunateDeliciousFortressesHogCrabsChesapeake Bay Author:Winfield Scott
“I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.” MotherRealizingArmyCooksIdolized Author:Jackie Gayle
“With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world” PeopleWorldHumansBornBillionsAssBad AssLinearOne LineBacteria Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.” ThinkingHumansArtEarthFormCultureTeacherTragedyAssEnlightenedBad AssGreat TragedyArt TeacherEnlightened Society Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.” PeopleFirstsProblemCareJobsAsksLeaderSuccessfulIntegrityAskingTrainDon't CareEducationalSolveAssBeing SuccessfulBad AssInnovativeHomeworkEducational SystemGood LeaderRedesignGpa Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem” IfsWantMeanDoePlayProblemHappensPastMovingGamesCommunityIgnoranceReadyEvidenceListsAssPocketsBad AssPhysicistInvoke Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStillsDoneVoiceAcceptingTasksAssOptimisticBad AssFuzzy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.” TwoStatesUnitedUnited StatesCenturyMilitaryStandardsDefinedQuartersMarineMarine CorpsProwessUsmcUnited States MarineUnited States Marine CorpsMy Marine Author:James L. Jones