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Carl Gustav Jung: Shrinking away from death
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.” —Carl Gustav Jung.
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Paul Allen: Much wider door to human progress
“The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.” —Paul Allen.
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Shane Parrish: Standardization
“One way companies gain leverage over people is through standardization, which makes it easy to substitute one person for another.” —Shane Parrish.
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Shane Parrish: Amplified by technology
“If variations in individual performance are amplified by the tools (technology) available (and those tools are getting better), then we can expect the gap between the most productive and least productive people in a society to increase over time.” —Shane Parrish.
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Abigail Spencer: Gratefulness
“Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we’ve poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually… a verb. It’s an activity.” —Abigail Spencer.
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Joan Ryan: Such idiots
“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we’re all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.” —Joan Ryan.
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Hugh Jackman: It diminishes people
“I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.” —Hugh Jackman.
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Eminem: Probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway
“To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.” —Eminem.
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Kurt Cobain: Known enemy
“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.” —Kurt Cobain.
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Rihanna: As an old woman
“When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.” —Rihanna, singer and songwriter.
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John Rawls: Duties of compassion and humanity
“Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.” —John Rawls.
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Peyton C March: Wonderful mythical law of nature
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.” — Peyton C. March.
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Pope Gregory I: Most powerful charm of beauty
“When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.” —Pope Gregory I.
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Morrissey: Extreme inconvenience
“That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.” —Morrissey.
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Sammy Davis Jr: Commitment versus fear
“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.” —Sammy Davis Jr.
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Simon Sinek: For a lifetime
“Driving to succeed overnight may look and feel good, but it’s unstable. Setting out to succeed for a lifetime is the most stable success of all.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Not living truthfully
“If you know the truth and decline to speak the truth, you are not living truthfully.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Pico Iyer: More time and space
“I don’t need any more data; I need more time and space to sort out the data I have already.” —Pico Iyer.
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G K Chesterton: True news
“We do not want a newspaper to give us a vision of the world made perfect; we want a Church for that. We do not want a newspaper to give us good news; we want a Gospel for that. We want a newspaper to give us true news; not elevating news or improving news.” —G…
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Anil Ambani: Sharing emotion and feelings
‘I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don’t think the derogatory ”managed relationships”. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can’t be money, and it should not be money.’ —Anil Ambani.
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Malaika Arora: Fatigue
“Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.” —Malaika Arora.
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Reham Khan: Women in the workplace
“It amazes me to this day to think about women in the workplace who spend more time trying to damage other women’s images or opportunities than they do on improving their own abilities.” —Reham Khan, Reham Khan.
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David Bain: Accurate honesty to oneself
“Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.” —David Bain.
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David Icke: Gift of love
“A gift of truth is the gift of love.” —David Icke.
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Jordyn Woods: Body positivity
“I feel like body positivity is loving yourself and wanting to be the best version of you. But working out doesn’t mean I’m not happy with my appearance, it just helps me get through things that are deeper than what’s on the outside.” —Jordyn Woods.
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Estée Lauder: Sell it hard
“I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” —Estée Lauder.
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Jill Konrath: Fresh ideas
“What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.” —Jill Konrath.
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Amelia Earhart: Paper tigers
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” -Amelia Earhart.
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Frank Herbert: Fear
“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…
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Andrew Carnegie: Little laughter, little success
“There is little success where there is little laughter.” —Andrew Carnegie.
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Warren Buffett: Competitive position
“Generally speaking, if you lose your competitive position — the Packard Motor Company had the premier car in the mid-’30s. The Cadillac was not the premier — it was the Packard. And then they went downscale one year and they never came back. They jumped their sales that one year because everybody wanted to own…
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Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn: Men have forgotten God
“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” —Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn.
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G K Chesterton: One-sided free thought
“If free thought means that we are not free to rebuke free-thinkers, it is surely a very one-sided sort of free thought. It means that they may say anything they choose about all we hold most dear, and we must not say anything we think in protest against all we hold most damnable.” —G K…
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G K Chesterton: God and goodness
“God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.” —G K Chesterton.
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Trish Bertuzzi: Never use the word ‘sorry’
“Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word ‘sorry.’” -Trish Bertuzzi.
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Sheryl Sandberg: Just get on
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” -Sheryl Sandberg.
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Mark Hunter: Handling the opportunities right
“It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” -Mark Hunter.
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Jill Konrath: Pursue luck with a vengeance
“I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” —Jill Konrath.
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Daniel Pink: Innate inner drive
“Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.” —Daniel Pink.
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George S Patton: Get out of my way
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” -George S. Patton.
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Edith Wharton: Beware of monotony
“Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins.” —Edith Wharton.
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Ryan Adams: Like a conversation
“To make a song is a gift, and once it’s done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It’s like a conversation.” —Ryan Adams.
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Diane Keaton: Extended family
“…I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That’s what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.” —Diane Keaton, Then Again.
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Joe Biden: Corruption
“Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.” —Joe Biden.
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John Wayne: Father’s advice
“I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.” —John Wayne.
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Ogden Nash: Conscientious man
“I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.” —Ogden Nash.
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Jennifer O’Neill: Nemesis
“My nemesis – my downfall, if you will – was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.” —Jennifer O’Neill.
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Bernie Sanders: Government for all of us
“Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.” —Bernie Sanders.
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Karl Lagerfeld: Sacrifice
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” —Karl Lagerfeld.
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Marquis de la Grange: Looking for an accomplice
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.” – Marquis de la Grange.
