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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Critics and art
“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” —Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist.
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Epicurus: Slave of philosophy
“If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy.” —Epicurus.
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Tara Westover: Loving and missing
“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.” Tara Westover, Educated.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Trusted friend
“Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.” –– Mark Zuckerberg.
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Shane Parrish: Intellectual hubris
“It’s intellectual hubris to think that with a few minutes of googling our opinions are on par with people who have spent their lives in a domain. And yet we’ve been taught that we are entitled to our own opinion and that it deserves equal weighting. Sure you hold your own opinion, but it doesn’t…
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Charlie Munger: Considerable defense
“Most people are going to get a very small real return from investment after considering inflation and taxes. I think that’s an iron law of the world and if, for a brief period, some of us do better than that, we ought to be very thankful. One of the great defenses to being worried about…
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Denise Scott Brown: Detrimental to children
“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.” —Denise Scott Brown.
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Anthony Weiner: Despot least troublesome to us
“We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that’s least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.” —Anthony Weiner.
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Roger Stone: Lines
“Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff – a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.” —Roger Stone.
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Lara Logan: Care about them everywhere
“If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.” —Lara Logan.
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George Washington: Intimate with few
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.” —George Washington.
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Kim Kardashian: Style of jeans
“For me, skinny is just a style of jeans – not a goal.” —Kim Kardashian.
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Jane Harper: Old-fashioned misogyny
“Nothing like old-fashioned misogyny to make the ignorant turn down good advice.” —Jane Harper, The Dry.
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Tara Conklin: Gift of direction
“There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the eyes of women and men in every town, maybe he scratches the earth or wields a gun, remedies illnesses or writes books, and there is always a vague emptiness within him. It is…
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Gwenda Bond: Full of adrenaline and failure
“Performers are never more unpredictable than when they’re full of adrenaline and failure.” —Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire.
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James Patterson: Two speeds
“Basically, I have two speeds…. Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.” —James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports.
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George R R Martin: History is a wheel
“Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.” —George R R Martin.
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Jonathan Kellerman: Others have it worse
“Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.” —Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense.
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Mary Oliver: Poetry
“Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.” —Mary Oliver.
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Marlon James: Did you eat?
“…Love isn’t saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat?” —Marlon James.
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J D Robb: Love and magic
“Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.” —J D Robb.
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Delia Owens: Time
“Time ensures children never know their parents young.” —Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing.
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Alex Michaelides: Choosing a lover
“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?” —Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient.
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Rudy Francisco: Scars
“You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Rudy Francisco: Scared but reckless
“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Paul Flynn: The past keeps changing
“Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing.” —Paul Flynn.
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Holly Willoughby: Simple, wonderful things
“The good things in life are the simple things – and they’re wonderful. I think people are under so much pressure but if you don’t do so much and appreciate what you have, you’ll have a great life.” —Holly Willoughby.
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Molly Ringwald: Promises and lies
“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.” —Molly Ringwald, When it Happens to You.
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Louis Riel: Believe in yourself
“You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.” —Louis Riel.
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Lisa Marie Presley: Monster you have to tame
“Something happens to people around fame and power and money – it can bring out the worst and best in people; it’s a monster you have to tame.” —Lisa Marie Presley.
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Sun Tzu: Strategy and tactics
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy are the noise before defeat.” —Sun Tzu.
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Meek Mill: Open inbox
“I don’t like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What’s the point? It’s like having your number all out. Everybody think they’re famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.” —Meek Mill.
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Nicolaus Copernicus: True knowledge
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” —Nicolaus Copernicus.
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Lil Xan: Manifest happiness
“It gets better: there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it’ll come back.” —Lil Xan.
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Rabbi Moses ben Maimon: Teach thy tongue
“Teach thy tongue to say I do not know, and thou shalt progress.” —Rabbi Moses ben Maimon.
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Charlie Munger: Other side’s argument
“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.” — Charlie Munger.
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Charlie Munger: Rapid destruction of ideas
“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.” — Charlie Munger.
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Charlie Munger: Great mental discipline
“The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things. You have to work hard on it. Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side. It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for…
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Isaac Asimov: Completely honest
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” – Isaac Asimov.
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Simon Sinek: Service
“Service is not doing what’s required of us. Service is doing more than what’s required of us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ella Baker: Challenged the rules
“I didn’t break the rules, but I challenged the rules.” —Ella Baker, civil rights and human rights activist.
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Nicole Scherzinger: Endorphins and sweat
“When you break a sweat you just feel great. You’ve got your endorphins going. You feel better. You look better. And if you aren’t able to get a workout in, try to find a steam room somewhere. You just look and feel so much better after a sweat.” —Nicole Scherzinger.
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Michelle Bridges: Motivation versus consistency
“Motivation is about feeling—determined, enthusiastic, frenzied, even angry—and is therefore fickle and unreliable. You can’t count on it being there. Consistency, however, is about doing. Consistency isn’t something that you need to wind up like a coiled spring every morning. You don’t need to plug it in and recharge it every few hours. It is…
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B D Schiers: Silence
“Silence can never be misquoted.” — B. D. Schiers.
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Lady Gaga: Shadows and light
“If you don’t have shadows, then you’re not in the light.” —Lady Gaga.
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Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four days.” —Zig Ziglar.
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Dolly Parton: Another turkey
“A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.” —Dolly Parton.
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50 Cents: Glass house
“You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I’ll break yo face.” —50 Cents.
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Thomas Jefferson: Governments and newspapers
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (1743-1826).
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Samantha Morton: We are who we are
“Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.” —Samantha Morton.
