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It always seems impossible until it's done.
Atribuída a Nelson Mandela.
If you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different.
Paráfrase dos Discursos de Epictetus (registrados por Arriano, ~108 d.C.). O contexto completo trata da formação de hábitos: toda faculdade se fortalece pelo ato correspondente — caminhar melhora o…
I never lose. I either win or I learn.
Atribuída a Nelson Mandela.
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
Os versos finais de Invictus são de Henley, não de Mandela — embora a associação com Mandela seja genuína.
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Little, Brown, 1994).
Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
David Parnas, em entrevista ao perfil ACM Fellows. O contexto: Parnas critica engenheiros que se orgulham de construir sistemas grandes e complexos. Sua contribuição conhecida é o oposto — o…
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
A frase pertence a John A. Shedd, do livro Salt from My Attic (1928) — não a Grace Hopper. Hopper a adotou como lema pessoal e a citou frequentemente, o que causou a atribuição errônea generalizada.…
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1994). A formulação condensada "Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front" circula amplamente como variante editorial desta passagem.