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The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

It's better to be aware of your sorrows so that you can appreciate what you have rather than dwell on what you never recieved.
- Caroline Yawn

What's meant to be will always find a way.
- Trisha Yearwood

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
- Boris Yeltsin

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
- Yoda

I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.
- Brigham Young

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
- F.M. Young