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Edward Appleton: Enthusiasm
“I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.”—Edward Appleton.
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Clare Mackintosh: How fast can you run?
“How fast can you run? When you really have to? In heels and a work skirt, with your bag banging against your side: how fast? When you’re late for your train and you have to get home, and you race down the platform with seconds to spare: how fast can you run? What if it…
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Shane Parrish: You miss what is true
“When you focus on what you’d prefer to be true, you miss what is true.” —Shane Parrish.
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Hermann Hesse: Wisdom
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”—Hermann Hesse.
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John Wooden: With your ability
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” —John Wooden.
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Dan Rockwell: One hour project
“Determine to spend one hour a day only using language that builds up people and teams. No criticism allowed for one hour. If you’re brave, try it for a morning. Don’t hide in your office for your one hour project.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Angela Saini: Feminism and racism
“After a recent book talk, a fan of Inferior told me she probably wouldn’t read Superior because it would have little relevance to her. It’s a comment that affected me. May I remind you that you can’t expect men to care about feminism if white feminists can’t care about racism.” —Angela Saini.
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Simon Sinek: Ultimate value
“The ultimate value of personal growth work is not to feel better about ourselves but to contribute to how those around us feel about themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Roger Ebert: Research on the web
“Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.” – —Roger Ebert.
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Steven Magee: Laser
“If a streetlight can make you sick, one can only wonder what exposure to a very high powered industrial LASER can do to you.”—Steven Magee.
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Albert Einstein: Attention it deserves
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” —-Albert Einstein.
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Francis Alys: Eye of the tornado
“In the eye of the tornado, there’s no more high and low, no floor and sky.” —Francis Alys.
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: Brute in us
“If he does not fight, it is not because he rejects all fighting as futile, but because he has finished his fights. He has overcome all dissensions between himself and the world and is now at rest… We shall have wars and soldiers so long as the brute in us is untamed.” —Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
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Baltasar Grecian: Aspire to be a hero
“Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.” —Baltasar Gracian.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Eat their own cooking
“I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Anonymous: Encouraged people
“Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.” —Anonymous.
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Dan Rockwell: Complainers
“Complainers never complain about the stupid things THEY do. The difference between complaining and responsibility is solution.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Roy Carlson: Longer
“The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.” – Roy Carlson.
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Kristen Stewart: Being famous
“The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.” —Kristen Stewart.
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Lata Mangeshkar: Playback singing
“I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today’s music.” —Lata Mangeshkar.
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Maria Shriver: How you handle your issues
“I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, ‘This isn’t fair.’ I said, ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Everybody has their issues. It’s how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.” —Maria Shriver.
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Peter Lindbergh: Fashion photography
“Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they’re wearing but who they are.” —Peter Lindbergh.
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Mac Miller: Fear
“Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.” —Mac Miller.
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King Louis XIV: All Europe
“I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.”—King Louis XIV.
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Michael Lewis: What you fail to imagine
“You might have good reason to pray for a tornado, whether it comes in the shape of swirling winds, or a politician. You imagine the thing doing the damage you would like to see done, and no more. It’s what you fail to imagine that kills you.” —Michael Lewis.
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Damon Wayans: Shame on you
“Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you’re the one who stops yourself.”—-Damon Wayans.
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Henry George: Progressive societies
“Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.” —Henry George, economist, journalist, and philosopher.
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Christa McAuliffe: I teach
“I touch the future. I teach.” —Christa McAuliffe.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Sometimes fatal
“…it never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.” —Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Maria Montessori: Imagination
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.” – – – Maria Montessori.
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Simon Sinek: Group dynamics
“Instead of expending energy to fit into the group, it’s better to expend energy to find the group in which we fit.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ernest Lord Rutherford: Better experiment
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” —Ernest Lord Rutherford.
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Warren Buffett: Investment success
“Investment success depends on buying into the right businesses at the right price. And you have to know how to value businesses, and you have to have an attitude that divorces you from being influenced by the market.” —Warren Buffett.
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Michael Jackson: We must still dare
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” —-Michael Jackson.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Controversial
“Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bullshit vendor.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Too zealous
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832).
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Daniel Stern: Invent
“Invent a past for the present.” —Daniel Stern.
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Simon Sinek: What we can see
“We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can’t see what we can see.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lyndon Johnson: Ours to win or lose
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon Johnson.
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Simon Sinek: Accept it when it’s offered
“We all understand the importance of asking for help, but those who achieve big things are the ones who accept it when it’s offered.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: We look to the business
“If we could guess successfully a high percentage of the time where the stock market was going to go, we would do nothing but play the S&P futures market. There wouldn’t be any reason to look at businesses and stocks. It’s just not our game. What we see when we look at the stock market…
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C S Lewis: Pride
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.” —C S Lewis.
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Cassie Ventura: People’s opinions
“There’s a fine line between saying, You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do, and taking on board people’s opinions.” —Cassie Ventura.
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Taslima Nasrin: Fundamentalism
“The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.” —Taslima Nasrin.
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William Wilberforce: Faith
“I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.” —William Wilberforce.
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Simon Sinek: Being authentic
“To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Foreign competition
“We don’t try to buy our businesses with thoughts much of world trends. We certainly think in terms of foreign competition. I mean, we do not want to buy into a business that has a very high labor content and that has a product that can be shipped in from abroad very easily…. You do…
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Warren Buffett: Right CEO
“The job of the board of directors is to have the right CEO. I mean, if you’ve got the right CEO, 90 percent of it takes care of itself. If you were the director of Cap Cities and you had Tom Murphy as the CEO, case closed. It was all you needed. And if you…
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Arthur Adamov: Passive pleasure
“Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.” —Arthur Adamov.
