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Albert Camus: Happiness
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” – Albert Camus.
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George Gissing: Money is time
“Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.” —George Gissing.
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Carol Vorderman: Female presenters
“How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.” —Carol Vorderman.
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Uri Geller: Contraceptive coil
“I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.” —Uri Geller.
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Rachel Maddow: Feminism
“Feminism is itself a challenge. Feminism is a challenge to the way things are in the world. It is by definition an oppositional movement, because it’s trying to accomplish something. I’ve never felt like feminism was a consciousness raising effort in isolation. Everything about feminism is about getting something in the world to get better…
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Steve Young: Self improvement
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” —Steve Young.
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Heather Sellers: Becoming a writer
“Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.” ~ Heather Sellers.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Depravity
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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G K Chesterton: False idealism
“There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Tradition
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.” —G K Chesterton.
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David Suzuki: Skepticism
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.” —David Suzuki.
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Helen Garner: Revolution begins in the kitchen
“Revolution begins in the kitchen.” —Helen Garner, writer, from “Other People’s Children”.
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Jacinda Ardern: Left by yourself
“If you sit and wait to feel like you are the most confident person in the room, you are probably going to be left by yourself.” —Jacinda Ardern.
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Taapsee Pannu: Lazy person
“I’m a lazy person, so I refrain from lying because I’d forget what story I’d cooked up before.” —Taapsee Pannu.
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Warren Buffett: Low-probability events
“People tend to underestimate low-probability events when they haven’t happened recently and overestimate them when they have happened recently. That is the nature of the human animal. You know, Noah ran into that some years back. But he looked pretty good after 40 days…. We believe almost anything can happen in financial markets. And the…
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Stephen Hawking: Fundamental difference
—Stephen Hawking.
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Bob Marley: She trusts you
“When a woman tells you about her problems, that doesn’t mean she’s complaining. It just means she trusts you.” —Bob Marley.
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Akira Kurosawa: Genius
“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” —Akira Kurosawa.
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Joe Henderson: Persistence and experience
“Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.” —Joe Henderson.
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Simon Sinek: Great people
“Without great people even great ideas are useless.” —Simon Sinek.
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Gilda Radner: Fashion taste
“I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.” – Gilda Radner.
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Warren Buffett: Beauty about investments
“That’s the beauty about investments. You only have to look at the ones that you feel capable of evaluating and you skip all rest.” —Warren Buffett.
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Caroline Sheridan Norton: Serve his creatures
“They serve God well, who serve his creatures.” —Caroline Sheridan Norton.
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Sam Brown: With substance
“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.” – Sam Brown.
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Nizar Qabbani: Souls in stone age
“Our shouting is louder than our actions, / Our swords are taller than us, / This is our tragedy. / In short / We wear the cape of civilization / But our souls live in the stone age.” -Nizar Qabbani, poet and diplomat (21 Mar 1923-1998).
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Fred Raymond: Expert judgment
“Expert judgment is typically the crux of cost and schedule estimates but in the spectrum of the risk management process, quantification of expert judgment is the weakest area.” – Fred Raymond.
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Timothy Dalton: Only after a struggle
“You can’t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.” Timothy Dalton.
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Sophie Turner: Dresses
“Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.” – – – Sophie Turner.
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David Letterman: Traffic signals in New York
“Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.” —David Letterman.
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Earl Warren: Sports pages first
“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.” —Earl Warren.
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G K Chesterton: Easy to be a madman
“It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own.” —G K Chesterton.
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Gretchen Rubin: Actions, not outcomes
‘I think about actions, not outcomes. That way, I stay focused on the things I can control (more or less). So I don’t think about “making the book a success,” but “writing the best book I possibly can.”’ —Gretchen Rubin.
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Tom Ford: September 11th
“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.” —Tom Ford.
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Kelly Clarkson: Public speaking
“When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at…
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Henrik Ibsen: Money
“Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.” -Henrik Ibsen, playwright (20 Mar 1828-1906).
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Graham & Dodd: Security analysis
“Security analysis is a severely practical activity, and it must not linger over matters that are not likely to affect the ultimate judgment.” —Benjamin Graham and David Dodd.
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C S Lewis: Repentance
“Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms…surrendering. This process of surrender—this movement full speed astern—is what Christians call repentance.”
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A J Jacobs: Future self
“The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.” —A J Jacobs.
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Simon Sinek: Good friends
“Good friends make us better people. They cheer us on when we hit bottom and keep us humble when we reach the top.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Lot of someones
“We can’t be everything to everyone, but we can be something to someone…even a lot of someones.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marc Andreesen: Selling systems
“[There are] misperceptions of the salesman as somebody who’s wearing a shiny suit selling somebody something that they don’t need. And so, we have a couple of responses to that. We have a specific response to that, which is actually the role of sales is…not to sell something you don’t need — it’s essentially to…
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Few experience what you really are
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” – —Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
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George Jean Nathan: Bad officials
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.” -George Jean Nathan, author and editor (14 Feb 1882-1958).
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John Updike: Fits into human hand
“Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.” -John Updike.
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John Updike: Healthy adult male bore
“A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.” —John Updike.
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Emilia Clarke: Juice diet
“There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, ‘This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.’ I just wish they’d say, ‘It ain’t the truth.’” —Emilia Clarke.
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Simon Sinek: First into danger
“Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we’re inspired to follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jeanine Pirro: First trolley to hell
“As someone who’s run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.” —Jeanine Pirro.
