“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
-Emily Bronte.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: It’s fat
“It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.”
—Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Lily Tomlin: Under construction
“The road to success is always under construction.”
—LILY TOMLIN.
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Don Marquis: Enough for all of them
“I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.”
—Don Marquis.
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Immanuel Kant: Crooked timber of humanity
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight
thing was ever made.”
– IMMANUEL KANT.
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Marcel Duchamp: Avoid conforming
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
—Marcel Duchamp.
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Esther Dyson: Online standards
“The world is never going to be perfect, either on- or offline; so let’s not set impossibly high standards for online.”
– ESTHER DYSON.
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Bobbie Gentry: Euphemism
“Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.”
—Bobbie Gentry.
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Keenan Wynn: Let the stars take the blame
“My billing has always been, ‘and’, or ‘with’, or ‘including.’ That’s all right, let the stars take the blame.”
—Keenan Wynn.
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Kate Beckinsdale: Complete madness
“I think that dwelling on other people’s perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.”
—Kate Beckinsdale.
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Bella Abzug: Homemaker
“I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”
—Bella Abzug.
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Simon Sinek: No finish line
‘Because the game of business has no finish line, we have to focus on how we play instead of the arbitrary “end of the game.”‘
—Simon Sinek.
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Haile Selassie: Inaction
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
—-Haile Selassie.
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Simon Sinek: Fantastic
“That idea is so fantastic… stop talking about it and do it!”
—Simon Sinek.
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Edward Hopper: No reason to paint
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
—-Edward Hopper.
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Willem Dafoe: Lazy critics
“A lot of critics are lazy. They don’t want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they’ve seen before.”
—Willem Dafoe.
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Simon Sinek: Two types of decisions
“There are two types of decisions: good decisions and lessons learned.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Ernest Hemingway: Best people
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
—-Ernest Hemingway.
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Simon Sinek: Employees and customers
“Employees must love the company before the customers ever will.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Edmund Hillary: We conquer ourselves
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
—-Edmund Hillary.
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George Burns: Busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair
“Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.”
—George Burns.
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Simon Sinek: Culture
“So goes the culture, so go the results.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Eve Merriam: War
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?”
—Eve Merriam.
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Edgar Degas: Talent
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”
—Edgar Degas.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Silence, a lie
“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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Juan Antonio Samaranch: Olympism
“Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.”
—Juan Antonio Samaranch.
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Robert Sheckley: Common vice
“We denizens of Earth have a common vice: We take what we’re offered, whether we need it or not. You can get into a lot of trouble that way.”
-Robert Sheckley.
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Simon Sinek: Almost always better
“Companies that claim to be the best rarely are the best. Companies that strive to be better are almost always better.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Northrop Frye: Literature
“Literature encourages tolerance — bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as possibilities.”
—Northrop Frye.
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Irving Stone: Love the same books
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
—Irving Stone.
