{"id":10919,"date":"2012-11-05T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2012-11-02T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T22:37:09","slug":"25-invigorating-project-management-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=10919","title":{"rendered":"25 Invigorating Project Management Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>About a year ago, I posted a project management blog called Do Affirmations and Quotes Work for You?<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0It was based on my first-hand observations and shared how quotes and affirmations could be a useful and self-reflective tool in the work place.<\/p>\n

In the 5 Easy Tips for Using Quotes and Affirmations<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>section, I encouraged everyone to create a \u201csignature collection\u201d of project management quotes for inspiration, motivation, and perspective. Guess what?\u00a0Last week I completed my goal of collecting 25 meaningful project management quotes by the end of 2012.<\/p>\n

Since they inspire, motivate and offer perspective to me, I\u2019m hoping that they might inspire, motivate and offer perspective to you too (especially during the bumpy, draining and discouraging parts of the project management process).<\/p>\n

So without further ado, here are my 25 Invigorating Project Management Quotes<\/em> for 2012:<\/p>\n

1. \u201cWe will either find a way, or make one.\u201d \u2013 Hannibal<\/em><\/p>\n

2. \u201cWorking ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.\u201d \u2013 Issac Assimov<\/em><\/p>\n

3. On design \u2013 \u201cMake everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.\u201d \u2013 Albert Einstein<\/em><\/p>\n

4. \u201cA project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.\u201d \u00a0\u2013 Scott Allen<\/em><\/p>\n

5. \u201cGet the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That\u2019s what management is all about.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Tom DeMarco<\/em><\/p>\n

6. \u201cIf everyone is thinking alike, someone isn\u2019t thinking.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 General George Patton J<\/em><\/p>\n

7. \u201cThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.\u201d \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/em><\/p>\n

8. \u201cIt\u2019s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what\u2019s required.\u201d \u2013 Winston Churchill<\/em><\/p>\n

9. \u201cIf I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Isaac Newton<\/em><\/p>\n

10. \u201cData is like garbage.\u00a0 You\u2019d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.\u201d\u00a0 Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n

11. \u201c\u2018Begin at the beginning,\u2019 the King said gravely, \u2018and go on till you come to the end; then stop.\u2019\u201d \u00a0– Lewis Carroll,\u00a0Alice in Wonderland<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>12. \u201cEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.\u201d\u00a0 – Gertrude Stein<\/em><\/p>\n

13. \u201cThe pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0John Maxwell<\/em><\/p>\n

14. \u201cWhen planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.\u201d\u00a0– Chinese Proverb<\/em><\/p>\n

15. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines<\/em><\/p>\n

16. “I’m a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.” – Merlin Mann<\/em><\/p>\n

17. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/em><\/p>\n

18. “Examine what is said and not who speaks.” \u2013 Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n

19. “Let\u2019s put a stake in the Quicksand.” – Mike Lindelsee<\/em><\/p>\n

20. “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” \u2013 Rotarian<\/em><\/p>\n

21. “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.\u201d\u00a0 – Stanislaus Lezczynski<\/em><\/p>\n

22. “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person’s brow.” – Charles Brower<\/em><\/p>\n

23. “There are two kinds of people: those who finish what they start, and so on.” – Robert Byrne<\/em><\/p>\n

24. \u201cMeasure twice, cut once.\u201d- Carpenter’s Maxim<\/em><\/p>\n

25. \u201cDo what you can, with what you have, where you are.\u201d – Theodore Roosevelt<\/em><\/p>\n

Since I am wrapping up the list of 25 Invigorating Project Management Quotes<\/em> with an adage by Theodore Roosevelt, I can\u2019t resist offering you an excerpt from a famous speech he gave in Paris, France in 1910 called The Man in the Arena<\/em>. When times get tough, deadlines loom, and resources dwindle, his powerful message never fails to boaster the most world weary project managers:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.\u201d\u00a0 – Theodore Roosevelt<\/em> (Citizenship in a Republic<\/em>; Paris, France – 1910).<\/p>\n

Thank you Mr. Roosevelt .. I’m feeling more energized already \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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