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Simon Sinek: Then decide what to do
“Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as we can see. Then decide what to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Daphne du Maurier: Mirrors
“How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” —Daphne du Maurier, novelist (13 May 1907-1989)
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Cate Blanchett: Judgmental
“I think it’s so easy to be judgmental of other people’s decisions.” —Cate Blanchett.
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Thomas Kempis: How you should pray
“This is how you should pray: ‘Lord, if you see this to be for my good, if you judge it to be profitable for me, give me this thing to use for your honor; but if you foresee it will do me harm, impair the health of my soul, take away from me the desire…
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Christopher Dawson: War of ideas
“In the war of ideas, it’s the crudest and most simplified ideology that wins. During our own lifetimes we have seen great and highly civilized countries becoming infected by epidemics of ideological insanity, and whole populations being destroyed for the sake of some irrational slogan.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Uncle Bob: Not the language
“It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that make the language appear simple!” – Uncle Bob.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Never complain
“Never complain about people, no matter how justified. Just drive them to complain about you.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Simon Sinek: Begetting
“Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Something being scorned
“It’s better to pay attention to something that is being scorned than something that’s being championed.” —Warren Buffett.
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Daphne du Maurier: Love
“Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.” —Daphne du Maurier.
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Cicero: Avarice
“Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.” —Cicero.
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Jennifer Wright: Abortion and rape
“When people say abortion is only okay in cases of rape, they’re telling women they only get bodily autonomy if they’ve already been punished sufficiently.” —Jennifer Wright.
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G K Chesterton: Pornography
“Pornography is not a thing to be argued about with one’s intellect, but to be stamped on with one’s heel.” —G K Chesterton.
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Andy Hunt: Perfect software
“No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It’s unlikely that you’ll be the first.” – Andy Hunt.
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Simon Sinek: Fighting for and against
“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Financial institutions
“If you’re analyzing something like WD-40, or See’s Candy, or our brick business, or whatever…they may have good or bad prospects but you’re not likely to be fooling yourself much about what’s going on currently. But with financial institutions, it’s much tougher. Then you throw in derivatives on top of it, and…no one probably knows…
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Charlie Munger: Search expenses
“Now the search expenses that brought us Ajit Jain, now there was an investment that really paid a dividend. I can think of no higher return investment that we’ve ever made that was better than that one. And I think that’s a good life lesson. In other words, getting the right people into your system…
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles become strengths
“The struggles we overcome as children become our strengths as adults.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Elroy Flecker: Thy dawn
“Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn; For thee the sunlight creeps across the lawn, For thee the ships are drawn down to the waves, For thee the markets throng with myriad slaves, For thee the hammer on the anvil rings, For thee the poet of beguilement sings.” —James Elroy Flecker, The Story…
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Rabindranath Tagore: New melodies
“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.” —Rabindranath Tagore.
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Epicetus: For what would you sell these things?
“Your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?” —Epicetus.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Inspiration
“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” —Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Simon Sinek: Pushing for better
“It’s better to feel uncomfortable pushing for better than feel uncomfortable settling for less.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sigmund Freud: Not from a single aspiration
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.” —Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939).
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George Clooney: Hearing yourself speak
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” —George Clooney.
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Francisco Varla: No whole system
“There is no whole system within interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without its environment.” — Francisco Varla.
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Karl Marx: Once every few years
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” —Karl Marx.
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Ana Gasteyer: Parody
“I’d like to say that parody is a celebration of a person’s specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.” —Ana Gasteyer.
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Chinese proverb: Public business
“Public business should be conducted publicly.” —Chinese proverb.
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Simon Sinek: Because of work
“If we push people away because of work, then when we’re finally free there will be no friends left…only plenty of time for more work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Look at the men around him
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”—Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author.
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Jerome K Jerome: Idleness must be stolen
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.” —Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and playwright.
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Marcus Aurelius: My task is to be good
“No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, ‘No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.’ ” —Marcus Aurelius. —
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Niccolo Machiavelli: What you really are
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” —Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Simon Sinek: Reinforce, not define
“Products should be used to reinforce, not define, who a company is.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Simplicity itself
“We haven’t succeeded because we had great complicated systems or some magic formulas we apply or anything. We’ve succeeded because we have simplicity itself. We take people that know how to play their game very well, and we let them play the game. And it’s just worked in one field after another. And every now…
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Dr. Benjamin Spock: In automobile terms
“In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.” —Dr. Benjamin Spock.
