“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Being Late
What late people don’t understand about us on-time people is that we hate you. And the reason why we hate you is that it’s so easy to be on time — you just have to be early. And early lasts for hours. And on time lasts a second. And then you’re late forever.
— Mike Birbiglia, Thank God for Jokes
Gossip
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Complexity
Fools ignore complexity.
Pragmatists suffer it.
Some can avoid it.
Geniuses remove it.
-- Alan Perlis
Perseverence
I would have not made it without these two things. To young people, I would like to say: 'Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.
-- Salva Dut, Long walk to Water
Integrity
It's easier to hold to your principle 100 percent of the time then it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time.
-- Clayton Christensens
Danger of Marginal Thinking
If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you hae paid for it and don't have it.
-- Henry Ford
Creativity
Creativity is intelligence having fun -- Albert Einstein
Mastery
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
― Stephen McCranie
Unreasonable man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw