“The most popular labor-saving device is still money.”
—Phyllis George.
Simon Sinek: Defeat pessimism with optimism
“The only way to defeat pessimism is with optimism.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Norman Cousins: Early warning system
“History is a vast early warning system.”
—Norman Cousins.
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Brooks Adams: Friendship
“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
—Brooks Adams.
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Edward VIII: Only two rules really count
“Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself, never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.”
—Edward VIII.
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Peter Bevelin: Changing people
“One thing that has been reinforced is how hard it is to change people’s opinions or beliefs. On the other hand, this is understandable. As the author Jacob Braude said: ‘Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others.’ The lesson? It is better to avoid situations where we need to change people. Also, in the end, each of us has to respect that others may disagree with us.”
—Peter Bevelin.
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Richard Bach: Surprise quiz
“It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?”
—Richard Bach.
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Damian Lillard: Outwork thousands
“If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.”
—Damian Lillard.
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Billy Wilder: Trust your own instinct
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”
—Billy Wilder
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Shirin Ebadi: Human rights
“Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.”
—Shirin Ebadi.
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Epicetus: Conquer opinion
“It is better, by yielding to truth, to conquer opinion; than, by yielding to opinion, to be defeated by truth.”
——-Epictetus
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Blaise Pascal: Justified strength
“Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.”
—Blaise Pascal.
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Salman Rushdie: Language is courage
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
—Salman Rushdie.
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Bassam Tarazi: Out of control
“The only thing you can really control is how you react to things out of your control.”
—Bassam Tarazi.
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Paul McCartney: Glass walls
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
—Paul McCartney.
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Jim Rohn: Risk the usual
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
~Jim Rohn
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Chris Van Allsburg: Santa
“Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.”
—Chris Van Allsburg.
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Simon Sinek: Invest in relationships
“Invest in relationships. Life is hard. None of us has the strength to do it alone. We need people to encourage and inspire us so we can encourage and inspire others.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Igor Stravinsky: Possibility of being right
“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.”
—Igor Stravinsky.
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Igor Stravinsky: Felt it
“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
—Igor Stravinsky.
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Simon Sinek: Workers and leaders
“When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Erich Segal: Get your ears checked
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
—Erich Segal.
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Brian Jacques: Strongest and bravest
“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
—Brian Jacques.
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Marc Andreesen: Read a dozen books
“The problem of having to finish every book is you’re not only spending time on books you shouldn’t be but it also causes you to stall out on reading in general. If I can’t start the next book until I finish this one, but I don’t want to read this one, I might as well go watch TV. Before you know it, you’ve stopped reading for a month and you’re asking ‘what have I done?!’ I think that’s part of it. This moral hectoring of ‘don’t do that’ which can only be so successful. The other technique is to read a dozen books at a time.”
—Marc Andreessen.
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Donald Trump: Think big
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
—Donald Trump.
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Simon Sinek: Life is beautiful
“Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or the things we do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Anne Frank: Start improving the world
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank.
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George Herbert Walker Bush: Minds and hairdos
“When it comes to the minds and hairdos of our young people, something had to be done.”
—George H W Bush.
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Ingrid Newkirk: Was that all wrong?
“Not until black demonstrators resorted to violence did the national government work seriously for civil rights legislation … In 1850 white abolitionists, having given up on peaceful means, began to encourage and engage in actions that disrupted plantation operations and liberated slaves. Was that all wrong?”
-Ingrid Newkirk.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles
“Our struggles are the short-term steps we must take on our way to long-term success.”
—Simon Sinek.
