Murray Hopper Quotes

#1. Finally, leaders focus on people. In the words of Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist and rear admiral in the US Navy, "You manage things; you lead people." Naturally,

Jocelyn Davis

#2. Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)

Grace Murray Hopper

#3. This water is more delicious than the soft kisses from the daubed lips of a dozen nubile maidens

Colleen Houck

#4. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

Munia Khan

#5. Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

Ole Hallesby

#6. Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

Pablo Picasso

#7. Truth sets one free, but love casts out fear.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

Grace Murray Hopper

#9. I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Malcolm X

#10. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

Grace Murray Hopper

#11. God is my desire, Faith is my guardian, and the Love of Christ is my portion forever. For God is Love and without Him I am nothing.

Anya VonderLuft

#12. Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Grace Murray Hopper

#13. If I say to you I don't have an open marriage ... and you don't trust that, well, there's nothing that I really have to say to anybody about anything because at the end of the day, I'm living my life and I'm happy.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#14. I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

Scott Brooks