Plans are useless but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you’re going to push a piece of machinery to its limits and expect it to hold together, you have to have some sense of where that limit is. - Ken Miles (Ford v Ferrari)

An engineer is said to be a man who knows a great deal about a very little, and who goes around knowing more and more, about less and less, until finally, he knows practically everything about nothing; whereas, a salesman, on the other hand, is a man who knows a very little about a great deal, and keeps knowing less and less about more and more until he knows practically nothing, about everything. - Van Nuys, California, News, June 26, 1933

I believe we have some power over who we love. It isn’t something that just happens to a person. - Amy March (Little Women)

You only win when you maintain your dignity. Dignity always prevails. - Dr. Don Shirley (Green Book)

It is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself…particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility. - Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)

Fortune favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

quel che sarà, sarà (what will be, will be)

好事多磨 (good things require hard work)

This too shall pass.