‘Normal is what the majority does, which is why “different” is so much more interesting.’
—Simon Sinek.
Barbara Kingsolver: Memory
“It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”
—Barbara Kingsolver.
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Joe Armstrong: Make it beautiful
“Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”
– Joe Armstrong.
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Edmund Husserl: Experience
“Experience by itself is not science.”
—Edmund Husserl.
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William Ellery Channing: Intercourse with superior minds
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.”
—-William Ellery Channing.
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Shane A Parrish: Long term results
“The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.”
—Shane A Parrish.
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D L Moody: God doesn’t want that kind of religion
“It seems to me that there are a great many people who want just religion enough to make them respectable, and keep them in society. I tell you God doesn’t want that kind of religion.”
—D L Moody.
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John Carmack: Just a function
“Sometimes the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.”
– John Carmack.
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Russell Crowe: Living in Australia
“There’s an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine’s free, and the harbour’s free, and the beach is free.”
—Russell Crowe.
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Simon Sinek: Give things a try
“If we don’t give things a try, nothing will ever get off the ground.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Chameleon-like
“We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.”
—Nicolas de Chamfort.
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Omar Khayyam: A hair divides
“A hair divides what is false and true.”
—Omar Khayyam.
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Simon Sinek: Reality and perception
“If perception is reality, then it follows that reality is perception. Which makes a good case for optimism.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Booker T Washington: Staying down with him
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
—-Booker T. Washington.
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Colin Powell: ‘You’d mention it’
“Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.'”
—Colin Powell.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: World is not perfect
“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 live in it.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Charles Petzold: Owning a computer
“Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.”
—Charles Petzold.
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Edward Everett Hale: Wise anger
“Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.”
—Edward Everett Hale.
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Travis View: Commenting on the internet
“It was always assumed that if you were commenting on the internet, your handle was not your real name.”
—Logan Strain aka Travis View.
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Kenneth Tynan: At what point does conformity become corruption?
“How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.”
—-Kenneth Tynan.
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Emile Zola: Poet and craftsman
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”
—Emile Zola.
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Simon Sinek: Generosity
“Generosity is doing something for someone else and expecting nothing in return.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Anne McCaffrey: Make no judgments
“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”
—Anne McCaffrey.
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Otto von Bismarck: Write diplomatically
“Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.”
—Otto von Bismarck.
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Cesar Chavez: Vegetarian
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.”
—Cesar Chavez.
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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.
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Simon Sinek: Happiness and fulfillment
“Happiness comes from WHAT we do. Fulfillment comes from WHY we do it.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Sean O’Casey: Temper
“It’s my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.”
—-Sean O’Casey.
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Vincent Van Gogh: Love many things
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
—Vincent Van Gogh.
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Simon Sinek: Sharing takes courage
“Selfish is easy. It’s sharing that takes courage.”
—Simon Sinek.
