In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. – B. Zander, The Art of Possibility

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. – Attributed to Zig Ziglar