“When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men’s first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice.”
—Ayn Rand.
Robert Green Ingersoll: Hands that help
“The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.”
—Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator.
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Mark Knopfler: Just one world
“There’s so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.”
—Mark Knopfler.
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Enid Blyton: Don’t leave someone for something
“Leave something for someone but don’t leave someone for something.”
—Enid Blyton
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Leo Fender: Easy to repair, easy to construct
“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.”
—Leo Fender.
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Alija Izetbegovic: No matter how ugly the truth
“I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us, but, with the help of God, we will prevail.”
—Alija Izetbegovic.
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Russell Ackoff: Problem
“The best thing that can be done to a problem is to solve it.
False.
The best thing that can be done to a problem is to dissolve it, to redesign the entity that has it or its environment so as to eliminate the problem.
Such a design incorporates common sense and research and increases our learning more than trial-and-error or scientific research alone can.”
—Russell Ackoff.
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Guy de Maupassant: Memory
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
—Guy de Maupassant.
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Simon Sinek: Authentic
“To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Barrack Obama: Old playbook, old as time
“Appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren’t for those who don’t look like us or don’t sound like us or don’t pray like we do, that’s an old playbook. It’s as old as time. And in a healthy democracy it doesn’t work. Our antibodies kick in, and people of goodwill from across the political spectrum call out the bigots and the fearmongers, and work to compromise and get things done and promote the better angels of our nature.”
—Barack Obama
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: If thou kiss not me?
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
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P D James: Every bird his worm
“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.”
—P D James.
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P D James: What a child doesn’t receive
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”
—P.D. James, novelist.
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Isabel Allende: Inhabited by spirits
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
—Isabel Allende.
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Jed S Rakoff: Baseball
“In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.”
—Jed S Rakoff.
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Premchand: First step to love
“Trust is the first step to love.”
—Premchand.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunity in uncertainty
“An infinite mindset sees opportunity in uncertainty.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Annie Parisse: Right button
“You’d just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.”
—Annie Parisse.
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Simon Sinek: Something to believe in
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Something to believe in
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Emily Bront: Tyrant
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
—Emily Bront.
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Josh Radnor: Be kind
“It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.”
—Josh Radnor.
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Booth Tarkington: Gossip
“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
—Booth Tarkington.
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Karl Popper: Social creatures
“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.”
-Karl Popper, philosopher and professor (28 Jul 1902-1994).
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John Ashberry: Experiences
“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.”
—John Ashberry.
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Robert Rankin: Plagiarising
“Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.”
—Robert Rankin.
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C G Jung: Transformed
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
—C.G. Jung.
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Regis Philbin: Four women
“When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they’d love to have? Tell me that.”
—Regis Philbin.
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Jay R Ferguson: Certainly
“Certainly I’m always willing to talk to anyone who’s interested in talking to me!”
—Jay R Ferguson.
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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.
