“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
—Frank Herbert.
“In order to be a leader, a man (or woman) must have followers. And to have followers a man (or woman) must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality of a leader is unquestionably integrity. without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man’s associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower.
“A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki – its more valuable than e-mail for running a company – and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.”
—Garrett Camp.
“There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.”
—Simon Sinek.
“I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.”
—Sting.
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
—Simon Sinek.
“In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.”
— Karl Popper.
“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.”
—Tim O’Brien.
“No human being is illegal.”
—Elie Wiesel.
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
—Jalal ud-Din Rumi.
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.”
—Miguel de Cervantes.
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger.
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.”
—Evelyn Beatrice Hall.
“They come for you in the morning in a limousine, they take you to the studio, they stick a pretty girl in your arms… They call that a profession? Come on!”
—-Marcello Mastroianni.
“I’m not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it’s incredibly delicious.”
—Gwyneth Paltrow.
“I will not play at tug o’ war. / I’d rather play at hug o’ war, / Where everyone hugs instead of tugs.”
—Shel Silverstein, writer.
“In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.”
—Edward Bach.
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust, the other destroys it.”
—Simon Sinek.
“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”
—Fay Weldon.
“I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged – easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.”
—C J Mahaney.
“Every woman has had the guy she’s broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you’ve been the person who has done those things.”
—Ned Tanen.
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.”
—Leon Jaworski.
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”
—Christian Lous Lange.
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
—William Carlos Williams.
“A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don’t eat it.”
—Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
“Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
—Agatha Christie.
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated… No error in thinking about social acts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.”
—Solomon Asch.
“Ideally, couples need three lives, one for him, one for her, and one for them together.”
—Jacqueline Bisset.
