Quotes
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J K Rowling: Expiry date
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.” —J K Rowling.
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Don Miguel Ruiz: Real love
“Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.” —Don Miguel Ruiz.
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Rosanne Cash: America and Freedom
“It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who seem to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.” —Rosanne Cash.
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C S Lewis: Look. Listen. Receive.
“The first demand any work of any art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.” —C S Lewis.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: No remedy so easy as books
“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.” —Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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Sun Tzu: Circumstances
“Whether to concentrate or to divide your troops must be decided by circumstances.” —Sun Tzu.
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Andrew Hunt: Prove it
‘Don’t gloss over a routine or piece of code involved in the bug because you “know” it works. Prove it. Prove it in this context, with this data, with these boundary conditions.’ ― Andrew Hunt.
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V (Eve Ensler): Start fixing the world!
“Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!” —-V (formerly Eve Ensler).
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Jeremy Grantham: Only price matters
‘There are no ‘new eras’. The behaviorally driven, inefficient market is full of minor distortions that can usually be helped a lot by governmental action, and a few, very much more important major bubbles and busts in which the rules change and the usual governmental moves are of little or much reduced help. Only price…
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Jeremy Grantham: Important events in investing
“Major bubbles and busts are the only very important events in investing. The rest of the time, you show up for work, do a competent job, keep your nose clean, and everything works out okay because nothing much is happening. In a major bubble everything changes; stock picking fades into relative insignificance and asset and…
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Warren Buffett: Imperfect
“Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we’re trying to do. It’s imperfect but that’s what it’s all about.”— Warren Buffett.
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Ray Dalio: Expected value
“Thinking about expected value also applies when the downside is terrible. For example, even if the probability of your having cancer is low, it might pay to get yourself tested when you have a symptom just to make sure.”— Ray Dalio.
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Elon Musk: Odds
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” — Elon Musk.
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Peter Singer: Circle of altruism
“The circle of altruism has broadened from the family and tribe to the nation and race, and we are beginning to recognize that our obligations extend to all human beings. The only justifiable stopping place for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected by our actions are…
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Daniel Dennett: Veil of ignorance
“Everyone gets to vote on a favored design of society, but when you decide which society you would be happy to live in and give your allegiance to, you vote without knowing what your particular role or niche in it will be. You may be a senator or a surgeon or a street-sweeper or a…
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Sun Tzu: Soldier’s best ally
“The natural formation of the country is the soldier’s best ally.” —Sun Tzu.
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Sun Tzu: Enemy’s purpose
“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.” —Sun Tzu.
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Sun Tzu: Long delays
“Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.”—Sun Tzu.
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Sun Tzu: Art of maneuvering
“He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.” —Sun Tzu.
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Margaret Fuller: Light candles
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” —Margaret Fuller.
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Betty Williams: Arms are for hugging
“I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.” —Betty Williams.
Quite a Quote! 