Quite a Quote!

Tom Lehrer: Bad weather

“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” —Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928).
Simon Sinek: Intelligence versus creativity

“Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.” —Simon Sinek.
Kristen Stewart: Writing

“I do want to work on writing, because writing’s a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it’s intimidating as hell.” —Kristen Stewart.
Questlove: Decide

“Decide who you’re not before you decide who you are.” — Questlove.
Bill Gates: Fanatics

“I think the world’s best companies are built by fanatics. [That means that you] work day and night. Sort of don’t worry about the possibility of failure. Every setback is just something to work a little bit harder at doing. And you really know what you’re trying to achieve…. And you’re going to change your…
Kofi Annan: Wonderful advantage

“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.” —Kofi Annan.
Pearl S Buck: Halfway moment

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” —Pearl S. Buck.
Simon Sinek: Optimism

“Optimism is the ability to focus on where we’re going, not where we’re coming from.“ —Simon Sinek.
Jackie Chan: Cinema reflects culture

“Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.” —Jackie Chan.
Simon Sinek: No price in principles

“We cannot put a price on principles. There is no amount of money to justify doing what we do not believe in.” —Simon Sinek.
Nicolas de Chamfort: Conscience

“Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.” —Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794).
Warren Buffett: High volatility

“If we have a business about which we’re extremely confident as to the business results, we’d prefer that its stock have high volatility. We’ll make more money in a business where we know what the end game will be if it bounces around a lot.” —Warren Buffett.
Charlie Munger: Volatility in results

“As long as the odds are in our favor and we’re not risking the whole company on one throw of the dice or anything close to it, we don’t mind volatility in results. What we want are the favorable odds.” —Charlie Munger.
Simon Sinek: Progress

“If we think of everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed. If we do the one thing we need to do, we make progress.” —Simon Sinek.
Omar Khayyam: Your life

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” —Omar Khayyam.
Simon Sinek: Chances

“Leaders give us the chance to try and fail, then give us another chance to try and succeed.“ —Simon Sinek.
Booker T Washington: Belittle my soul

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” —Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (5 Apr 1856-1915).
Simon Sinek: Greatness

“Greatness doesn’t start with a market opportunity, it starts with a problem that needs solving. The opportunity comes from marketing the solution.” —Simon Sinek.
Colin Powell: Force multiplier

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” —Colin Powell.
Simon Sinek: Off the plan

“When we’re obsessed with the plan, we miss all the opportunities that exist off the plan.” —Simon Sinek.
George Harrison: Boredom

“The Beatles saved the world from boredom.” —George Harrison.
Maya Angelou: Diversity

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” —Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014).
Warren Buffett: Couple of things

“I can do anything in the world I want to do but what I want to do is run Berkshire Hathaway. Now why do I want to run it that way? There’s a couple of things: A) I get to paint my own painting. I go down there every day and I feel like Michelangelo…
Warren Buffett: Riskiness

“When we look at the future of businesses, we look at riskiness as being sort of a go/no-go valve. In other words, if we think that we simply don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, that doesn’t mean it’s risky for everyone. It means we don’t know – that it’s risky for us. It may…
Andrei Tarkovsky: Ideal conditions

“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply…
Simon Sinek: Direction a leader points

“A movement only exists when people are willing to move, inspired to follow in the direction a leader points.“ —Simon Sinek.
Simon Sinek: Most stable success of all

“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.
Anais Nin: Combination of states

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” —Anais Nin, writer.
John Burroughs: No sermons in stones

“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.” —John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (3 Apr 1837-1921).
E B White: Hang on

“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” —E. B. White.
Simon Sinek: No work

“Work is expending effort on things we don’t want to do. Passion is expending energy on things we love to do. The goal is to do no work.” —Simon Sinek.
Alec Baldwin: Pretty good conversationalist

“I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don’t speak the language!” —Alec Baldwin.
Simon Sinek: Confidence

“Confidence in leadership is the confidence to trust others.“ —Simon Sinek.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Product

“I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.” —Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
Emile Zola: Daily deadlines

“One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.” —Emile Zola, writer (2 Apr 1840-1902).
Henri Matisse: Derive happiness

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.” –-Henri Matisse.
Simon Sinek: Strength and vulnerability

“Strength comes from knowing we can be vulnerable. Vulnerability comes from thinking we are always strong.” —Simon Sinek.
Jordan Peterson: Faulty tools, faulty results

“People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. It’s partly fate. It’s partly inability. It’s…
Emile Zola: Two men inside the artist

“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.” —Emile Zola.
Charles Darwin: Confidence

“There are two ways that a human being can feel confidence. One is knowledge, and the other is ignorance.” — Charles Darwin.
Aja Frost: Successful professionals

“Successful professionals don’t climb the ladder by ignoring everyone who gives them constructive feedback.” —Aja Frost.
Mark Twain: April 1

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” —Mark Twain.
Basil Hume: Christian hope

“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” —Basil Hume.
Otto von Bismarck: Laws

“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” —Otto von Bismarck.
Simon Sinek: Imperfections to focus on

“We must find a purpose or cause to pursue otherwise all we have left are our imperfections to focus on.“ —Simon Sinek.
Soha Ali Khan: Mother’s advice

“My mother always told me never to offend a man’s ego and never hurt a woman’s emotions. An advice I will not forget to pass on to my daughter.” —Soha Ali Khan.
Pope Benedict XVI: Holy Saturday

“To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.” ― Pope…
Christopher Walken: Public image

“You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing. ” —Christopher Walken.
Simon Sinek: Better story to tell later

“Appreciate when things go awry. It makes for a better story to tell later.” —Simon Sinek.
Clarence Darrow: No man objected, no man rebelled

“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.” —Clarence Darrow, lawyer.