Howard G. Cunningham (Ward Cunningham) Quotes

I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

Howard G. Cunningham

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• Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Good
  • Body
  • Doing

• What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Reality
  • Perception
  • Designer

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Trust
  • Never

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Charity

• You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Forward

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Myself
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Good
  • Someone
  • Lyric

• Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Emotional
  • Better

• The really hard moment was when my dad said, 'Honey, if an agent is telling you to lose weight, then maybe you should lose weight.' I was 15, standing in our living room, having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight, and it hurt.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Dad
  • Hurt

• You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Guy
  • Government

• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  

  Rumi
  • Fear
  • Safety
  • Reputation

• I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

  

  Gena Rowlands
  • Independent

• By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Help
  • Support

• I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

  

  Howard G. Cunningham
  • Decision
  • Situation
  • Make