“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”
—-Robert Green Ingersoll.
David Henry Hwang: Happy
“I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
—David Henry Hwang.
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Sid Waddell: As giraffes say
“Well as giraffes say, you dont get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.”
—Sid Waddell.
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Simon Sinek: First into the unknown
“We call someone a leader not because they are in charge but because they have the courage to go first. To risk first. To trust first. First into the unknown.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Marvin Minsky: There is no trick
“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”
—-Marvin Minsky.
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Liz Vassey: Notice the small things
“Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.”
—Liz Vassey.
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William Shakespeare: False face
“False face must hide
what the false heart doth know.”
– William Shakespeare,MACBETH.
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Robin Quivers: Free speech
“If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, ‘We shouldn’t have free speech.'”
—Robin Quivers.
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Luc de Clapiers: Sweet to order
“There are none so sour as those who are sweet to order.”
—Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues.
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Guy de Maupassant: Avoid war
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
—Guy de Maupassant.
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Guy de Maupassant: More perfect world
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
—Guy de Maupassant.
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P D James: Not by the self-regarding
“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.”
—-P.D. James.
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Koichi Taneka: Occasional visit of success
“However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.”
—Koichi Taneka.
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Emily Bronte: Quite cured
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
-Emily Bronte.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: It’s fat
“It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.”
—Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Lily Tomlin: Under construction
“The road to success is always under construction.”
—LILY TOMLIN.
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Don Marquis: Enough for all of them
“I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.”
—Don Marquis.
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Immanuel Kant: Crooked timber of humanity
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight
thing was ever made.”
– IMMANUEL KANT.
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Marcel Duchamp: Avoid conforming
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
—Marcel Duchamp.
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Esther Dyson: Online standards
“The world is never going to be perfect, either on- or offline; so let’s not set impossibly high standards for online.”
– ESTHER DYSON.
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Bobbie Gentry: Euphemism
“Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.”
—Bobbie Gentry.
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Keenan Wynn: Let the stars take the blame
“My billing has always been, ‘and’, or ‘with’, or ‘including.’ That’s all right, let the stars take the blame.”
—Keenan Wynn.
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Kate Beckinsdale: Complete madness
“I think that dwelling on other people’s perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.”
—Kate Beckinsdale.
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Bella Abzug: Homemaker
“I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”
—Bella Abzug.
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Simon Sinek: No finish line
‘Because the game of business has no finish line, we have to focus on how we play instead of the arbitrary “end of the game.”‘
—Simon Sinek.
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Haile Selassie: Inaction
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
—-Haile Selassie.
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Simon Sinek: Fantastic
“That idea is so fantastic… stop talking about it and do it!”
—Simon Sinek.
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Edward Hopper: No reason to paint
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
—-Edward Hopper.
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Willem Dafoe: Lazy critics
“A lot of critics are lazy. They don’t want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they’ve seen before.”
—Willem Dafoe.
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Simon Sinek: Two types of decisions
“There are two types of decisions: good decisions and lessons learned.”
—Simon Sinek.
