Motivation will almost always ...

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
 Norman Ralph Augustine

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.
 Norman Ralph Augustine
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
 Norman Ralph Augustine
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
 Norman Ralph Augustine
A billion saved is a billion earned.
 Norman Ralph Augustine
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
 Norman Ralph Augustine