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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is a beautiful thing. It feels good to give it and it feels good when others give it to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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William James: Forgetting and remembering
“In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.” —William James.
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Angela Merkel: Politics
“Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn’t the top priority.” —Angela Merkel.
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Alex Marwood: Changing point
“Most people have to get to a point where they don’t have a choice before they’ll change something.” —Alex Marwood.
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Maryam Mirzakhani: Rarely
“I think it’s rarely about what you actually learn in class . . . it’s mostly about things that you stay motivated to go and continue to do on your own.” —Maryam Mirzakhani.
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Katrina Kaif: Beauty differs
“You have to understand, beauty differs from country to country. When I came to India, I found my sense of belonging and appreciation. People thought I was beautiful.” —Katrina Kaif.
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Brendan Behan: New York
“New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment; a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.” —Brendan Behan.
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Seneca: Seize what flees
“Let us therefore set out whole-heartedly, leaving aside our many distractions and exert ourselves in this single purpose, before we realize too late the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are left behind. As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must…
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Annie Dillard: Careful
“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.” —Annie Dillard.
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Arianna Huffington: Fearlessness
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” —Arianna Huffington.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Past experience
“Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.” —John Kenneth Galbraith (A Short History of Financial Euphoria).
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Charity Majors: Artifacts of past failures
“Most dashboards are artifacts of past failures — if you think that serves your current and future situations, you are blinding yourself.” —Charity Majors, Honeycomb.io.
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Alyssa Bereznak: Short-sighted
“It is incredibly short-sighted to have done a bad thing, and then … offer wisdom as to how we all might fix it.” — Writer Alyssa Bereznak doesn’t understand why tech’s sexual harassment perpetrators choose to suggest solutions rather than listening to their victims.
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Marcus Aurelius: Rounding the point
“It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point. Serenity, total calm, safe anchorage.” — Marcus Aurelius (Meditations).
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Ingmar Bergman: Anger and creativity
“The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there’s plenty of anger left.” —Ingmar Bergman.
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Seneca: Different person
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” —Seneca.
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Robert Frost: Change
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” —Robert Frost,poet.
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Benjamin Graham: True investment
”To have a true investment there must be present a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.” —Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor.
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Harrison Ford: Peace
“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.” —Harrison Ford.
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Simon Sinek: Curiosity
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Questions
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.” —Simon Sinek.
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Oscar Hammerstein: Unlimited
“The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.” —Oscar Hammerstein.
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Anonymous: Anything
“You can do anything once you stop trying to do everything.” —Anonymous.
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Walt Whitman: A Song of joys
“O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God! O to sail to…
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Jhumpa Lahiri: Be fearless
“You can’t have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It’s better to do something that’s not perfect and successful every time. It’s important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.” —Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Giorgio Armani: Alpha and Omega
“I’ve always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.” —Giorgio Armani.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Publilius Syrus: Helm
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” —Publilius Syrus,writer.
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Charlie Munger: Mental models
“You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of…
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Nikola Tesla: Non-physical phenomena
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” —Nikola Tesla.
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Simon Sinek: ‘Rebranding’
“There’s no such thing as ‘rebranding.’ A brand’s WHY is either clear or it’s fuzzy. And if it’s fuzzy, changing the look won’t help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Essential matters
“When you tell [grown-ups] you’ve made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead they demand, ‘How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does…
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Ilunga
“In June 2004, ‘ilunga’ was reported as being a Bantu word meaning ‘a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time’, and – in the opinion of 1,000 linguists surveyed on the subject – the world‘s most difficult word to translate.” Source: Wikipedia.
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Marc Andreesen: Change
“If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.” —Marc Andreesen.
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Tom Hanks: Hard
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” —Tom Hanks.
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Pamela Adlon: Best and worst
“Everybody hates you when you’re the best, and everybody hates you when you’re the worst.” —Pamela Adlon.
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Simon Sinek: Practice and hard work
“Being human takes practice and hard work. Being inhuman, unfortunately, comes all too easy.” —Simon Sinek.
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Herbert Bayard Swope: Formula for failure
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.” —Herbert Bayard Swope,journalist.
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Richard Bookstaber: Heuristics
“We live on a planet of inexperience, with an unknown future, forced to make decisions based only on the past, a past that may prove to be a limited guide to the future. On this planet we are drawn away from strict optimization and toward heuristics.” -Richard Bookstaber (The End of Theory).
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Kevin Bacon: Fame
“Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.” —Kevin Bacon.
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Jean de La Fontaine: Prudent enemy preferable
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.” —Jean de La Fontaine.
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Peter Norvig: AI systems
“AI systems are fundamentally dealing with uncertainty, whereas traditional software is fundamentally trying to hide uncertainty.” —Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, O’Reilly AI conference, New York.
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Simon Sinek: Hope
“If there are people who care, then there is hope. If hope is lost, then no one will care.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcus Aurelius: Right now
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Ringo Starr: Ambitious
“Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.” —Ringo Starr.
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Robert A Heinlein: Sin
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful — just stupid.)” —Robert A Heinlein.
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Simon Sinek: Clear vision
“A movement starts with a clear vision of a world different than the one we live in today.” —Simon Sinek.
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Biju Dominic: Chameleons
“Humans are like chameleons who have the ability to change their colours to suit the surroundings. We speak softly in libraries, we are boisterous in stadiums. As soon as an individual enters an environment, she derives a certain understanding and a meaning about that surrounding. It is this meaning that influences how we act in…
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Richard Bookstaber: Crisises
“How we look at the world, even how we understand what someone else is saying, depends on context, and context changes with our experience and with circumstance. In the day-to-day world, these changes usually move slowly—though they do change: what we want for our lives, what we strive for and sacrifice for, are different at…
