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Kanji Watanabe: Can’t afford to hate anyone
“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.” —Kanji Watanabe.
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Warren Buffett: Volume trends for everybody
“It is true that in the packaged goods industry, volume trends for everybody — whether they’re fat or lean in their operation — volume trends are not good. And the test will be over time — you know, three, five years — are the operations which have had their costs cut, do they do poor,…
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Henry David Thoreau: Want of prudence
“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. What we need to know in any case is very simple.” —Henry David Thoreau.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Deformity of vice
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” —Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Spurgeon: Great changes in old age
“It is not well to make great changes in old age.” —Spurgeon.
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W Somerset Maugham: Old age has its pleasures
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.” —W. Somerset Maugham.
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Benjamin Franklin: Difference between failure and success
“The difference between failure and success is the difference between doing something almost right and doing something right.” – Benjamin Franklin.
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Marie Kondo: Why we can’t let something go
“But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.” —Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
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Andre Maurois: Indifference of the soul
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.” —Andre Maurois.
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Fred Astaire: Start young
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” —Fred Astaire.
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Golda Meir: Old age
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” —Golda Meir.
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G K Chesterton: Humility
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing, or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are, of immeasurable stature.” —G K Chesterton.
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Elton John: Dangerous place
“When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.” —Elton John.
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Erin Davis: Make peace with messy relationships
“If you’re going to get connected, you’re going to have to make peace with messy relationships. You’re going to have to be okay with letting others in when you are at your worst and your life is a total train wreck. You also must be willing to turn the tables. When other people’s lives are…
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Katherine Johnson: STEM
“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.” —Katherine Johnson.
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Robert Kraft: Hard work and perserverance
“A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.” —Robert Kraft.
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Steven Wright: French toast during the Renaissance
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.” ~ Steven Wright.
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Stevie Wonder: I am what I am
“I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. I am what I am. I love me!” —Stevie Wonder, singer, musician, songwriter and record producer.
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Epicetus: As for sex
“As for sex, abstain as far as possible before marriage, and if you do go in for it, do nothing that is socially unacceptable. But don’t interfere with other people on account of their sex lives or criticize them, and don’t broadcast your own abstinence.” —Epicetus.
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Simon Sinek: Value of our lives
“The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Washington: Overgrown military establishments
“Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” —George Washington, 1st US president, general (22 Feb 1732-1799).
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Stacey Charter: Hop off the straight and narrow
“Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive.” —Stacey Charter.
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Taron Egerton: Being busy
“I think being busy is a healthy thing.” —Taron Egerton.
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Thomas A Kempis: Keep only yourself before your eyes
“Where are your thoughts when they are not upon yourself? And after attending to various things, what have you gained if you have neglected self? If you wish to have true peace of mind and unity of purpose, you must cast all else aside and keep only yourself before your eyes.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Own phraseology
“What is actually the matter with the modern man is that he does not know even his own philosophy; but only his own phraseology.” —G K Chesterton.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Those who say nothing
‘You can change the mind of someone who says “no”; never the minds of those who say nothing.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Robert Mugabe: Human rights worldwide
“Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.” —Robert Mugabe.
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Drake: Perfection
“‘Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.’ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard…
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Steve Irwin: Sustainable use
“I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.” —Steve Irwin.
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Stephanie Ruhle: Cheap stuff
“When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world is because we want to buy cheap stuff. If Donald Trump were to change trade laws, we couldn’t buy the cheap stuff or in our Wal-Marts, they would cost a whole…
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Peter Tork: Aspirin and vitamins
“Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.” —Peter Tork.
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George Washington: Excuses
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” —George Washington.
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A P J Abdul Kalam: Teaching
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
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Marcus Aurelius: Do less, better
“If you seek tranquillity, do less. Which brings a double satisfaction to do less, better.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Phaedrus: Old knives
“All the old knives that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.” ~ Phaedrus.
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Simon Sinek: Understand ourselves
“Before we can claim to understand others, we have to really understand ourselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Great safety or great danger
“Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger – according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Family
“Hardly anybody dares to defend the family. The world around us has accepted a social system which denies the family. It will sometimes help the child in spite of the family; the mother in spite of the family; the grandfather in spite of the family. It will not help the family.” —G K Chesterton.
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David Foster Wallace: Voting
“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.” —David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008).
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Calvin Harris: Dundee versus London
“To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.” —Calvin Harris.
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Tucker Carlson: Reform follows crisis
“In politics, reform never comes before crisis.” —Tucker Carlson.
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Boy George: He ain’t listening
“An actor is a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listening.” —Boy George.
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Matty Healy: Reading someone you love
“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.” —Matty Healy.
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Julie Bishop: Best buy in public health today
“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.” —Julie Bishop.
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Kelly Rowland: Celebrating each other’s growth
“I think the most beautiful thing is that we’re not parting because there were problems. We’re parting because we’re celebrating each others’ growth.” —Kelly Rowland.
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Freeman Dyson: Biological and cultural evolution
“Our double task is now to preserve and foster both biological evolution as Nature designed it and cultural evolution as we invented it, trying to achieve the benefits of both, and exercising a wise restraint to limit the damage when they come into conflict. With biological evolution, we should continue playing the risky game that…
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David Watson: Exaggeration of normal behavior
“There aren’t necessarily clear points of difference between what’s normal and abnormal. Abnormal behavior may just be an exaggeration of normal behavior.” —David Watson.
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Dottie Herman: Abnormal
“What we had was abnormal. People get used to abnormal times and then when they’re normal they think there’s something wrong.” —Dottie Herman.
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G K Chesterton: Merely Sentimentalist
“The very word Socialist has come very near to meaning merely Sentimentalist. It means a man not bold and logical enough to call himself a Communist.” —G K Chesterton.
