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Mike Judge: Favourite characters
“I don’t think people come home from work thinking, ‘I want to be shocked and startled.’ You want to check in with your favorite characters, and it’s nice knowing they’re not going to change that much.”—Mike Judge.
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Benjamin Franklin: Wealth
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Simon Sinek: Number of people willing to believe
“What makes a movement strong is not the number of people willing to give money, but the number of people willing to believe there is hope.”—Simon Sinek.
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Joyce Meyer: Force working through them
“We waste a great deal of time being angry and fighting with people when we should realize that our war is spiritual, not physical. We often need to deal with people or circumstances, but if we never realize the truth about the force working through them, we will never truly win.”—Joyce Meyer.
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G K Chesterton: Good for one’s soul
“Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one’s soul.”—G K Chesterton.
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James Newman: Mathematics
“The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.”—James Newman.
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Thomas Kempis: Mercy of his own feelings
“When a man is at the mercy of his own feelings, he misinterprets the most innocent actions, always ready to believe the worst; whereas your peaceable man sees good everywhere; at peace in himself, he isn’t suspicious of others.”—Thomas Kempis.
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Tracy Chevalier: Figuratively
“What do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?’‘I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but different periods of creation, so that it took many thousands — or hundreds of thousands of years — to create. It…
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Jessica Meir: Personality and technology
“The other big area now is personality and psychology. You may be good at what you do, but if you are not a pleasant and good person, you won’t get selected anymore. Being a good team player, having good skills in terms of leadership and followership, and knowing how to take care of yourself and…
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Christina Koch: Women naturally excel
“When you’re doing something where getting the job done is paramount, it naturally selects the people that are best at that job. When pure performance is the criteria, I’ve noticed women naturally excel.”—Christina Koch.
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Ray Bradbury: Ignorance
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”—Ray Bradbury.
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Abhijit V Banerjee: Information, alone, will not do the trick
“Aren’t we, those who live in the rich world, the constantbeneficiaries of a paternalism now so thoroughly embedded into the system thatwe hardly notice it? It not only ensures that we take care of ourselves better thanwe would if we had to be on top of every decision, but also, by freeing us fromhaving to…
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Esther Duflo: Awareness
“Awareness of our problems thus does not necessarily mean that they get solved. It may just mean that we are able to perfectly anticipate where we will fall.” —Esther Duflo.
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Kathy Fagan: At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center
At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center—Kathy Fagan When I told them it must be like dropping yourkidoff at school their first day, all my parent friendsnodded and smiled uncomfortably, meaning what would I know. I won’t be taking solacein the many firsts ahead. Here among the gray,spotted and brown heads…
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Simon Sinek: True leaders
“True leaders do not work to do better than anyone else, they work to do better than themselves. And that’s what makes them better leaders.”—Simon Sinek.
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Chris Bloomstran: Top of my portfolio
“The businesses at the top of my portfolio are not necessarily going to be the ones that perform the best over the long term but are the ones I know will perform.” —Chris Bloomstran.
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Virgil: Able
“They are able because they think they are able.”—Virgil.
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Karen An-Hwei Lee: On Floriography
“If you often find yourself at a loss for wordsor don’t know what to say to those you love,just extractpoetryout ofpoverty,this dystopiaof civilization rendered fragrant,blossoming onto star-blue fields of loosestrife,heady spools of spike lavender, of edible clover beckoning to say without bruisinga jot of dog’s tooth violet, a nib of larkspur notes,or the day’s perfumed…
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Simon Sinek: How great everyone else is
“Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.”—Simon Sinek.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Dawn of eternal peace
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”—-Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (14 Oct 1890-1969).
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Don’t join the book burners
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…”—Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Haruki Murakami: Pain is inevitable
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.” — Haruki Murakami.
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Edgar Lee Masters: Editor Whedon
Editor Whedon ‘To be able to see every side of every question; To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing long; To pervert truth, to ride it for a purpose, To use great feelings and passions of the human family For base designs, for cunning end. To wear a mask like the…
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Carlo Rovelli: Reflects the world
“Our knowledge consequently reflects the world. It does this more or less, but it reflects the world we inhabit. This communication between ourselves and the world is not what distinguishes us from the rest of nature. All things are continually interacting with each other, and in doing so each bears the traces of that with…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Memories
“I have the fondest memories of time spent in places called ugly, the most boring ones of places called scenic.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Kate Walsh: On its own terms
“I’ve learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.”—Kate Walsh.
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Angela Saini: Be wary
“Be wary of those who try to tell you that women’s bodies and brains are different in every way from men’s. Every single body and brain is different, and while some of those differences are down to sex, many of them aren’t. Biological essentialism is fallacious and dangerous.”—Angela Saini.
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Kay Boyle: Monody to the Sound of Zithers
Monody to the Sound of Zithers I have wanted other things more than lovers …I have desired peace, intimately to knowThe secret curves of deep-bosomed contentment,To learn by heart things beautiful and slow. Cities at night, and cloudful skies, I’ve wanted;And open cottage doors, old colors and smells a part;All dim things, layers of river-mist…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: He who has never sinned
“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors though never the same error more than once is more reliable than someone who has never made any.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Sandra Simonds: There was this bear cam
‘There was this bear cam on the Internet. It was pointed at a place called Katmai National Park, Alaska. A few years ago my friend sent me a link to it. I would watch it sometimes but I never saw any bears. Maybe it was bad luck because my friend said she saw bears. All…
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Luciano Pavarotti: Brains and music
“You don’t need any brains to listen to music.” —Luciano Pavarotti.
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Fran Mauriac: Great deserted palaces
“Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.” —Fran Mauriac, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Oct 1885-1970).
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Olga Tokarczuk: Where people speak English
“There are countries out there where people speak English. But not like us – we have our own languages hidden in our carry-on luggage, in our cosmetics bags, only ever using English when we travel, and then only in foreign countries, to foreign people. It’s hard to imagine, but English is the real language! Oftentimes…
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Peter Handke: Thrilled
“No one can be trusted who isn’t thrilled with himself at least now and then.”—Peter Handke.
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Lennie James: Justifications
“If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People arent bad people. They all have their justifications.”—Lennie James.
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Paul Leary: Working with computers
“That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything and they don’t drink all your beer.”—Paul Leary.
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Fridtjof Nansen: No choice but forward
“I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.”—Fridtjof Nansen.
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Tommy Ludwig: When software just works
“When software just works, it can be hard to actually know how much or who is consuming the software because they’re busy successfully using it instead of reporting issues. But it can be hard to distinguish that from nobody using it.” —Tommy Ludwig.
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Benjamin Franklin: Human felicity
“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Ted Hughes: Calibration
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”—Ted Hughes.
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Doug Hoyte: Incomplete and uncomfortable
“Once a programmer becomes used to a complex solution to a problem, simple solutions to the same problem feel incomplete and uncomfortable.” — Doug Hoyte.
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Pauly Ting: Process and people
“Be efficient with process, but effective with people.” —Pauly Ting.
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John W Gardner: Honor excellence
“We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it…
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Andrey Kurkov: Commonplace
“The once terrible was now commonplace, meaning that people accepted it as the norm and went on living, instead of getting needlessly agitated.”—Andrey Kurkov.
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Nick Cannon: Nobody can predict the future
“Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship youre in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other…
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Joseph Sobran: ‘Diversity’
‘”Diversity” now means conformity. It means making sensible people afraid to contradict nonsense so obvious as to insult their intelligence.‘ —Joseph Sobran.
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Meghna Pant: Duality
“I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love it’s seeking and then despairs in its absence.” —Meghna Pant.
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Amish Tripathi: Most powerful force in a woman’s life
“The most powerful force in a woman’s life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.”—Amish Tripathi.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Size of the theater
“The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Desmond Tutu: Neutrality
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” —Desmond Tutu, clergyman.
