Meg Whitman Quotes

Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS

Familiarity breeds attempt.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

I've never said flange to a monkey!

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.

I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.