Category: Quotes

“You teach people how to treat you.”

– Unknown

“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.

But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it.

Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders it properly.”

– Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.”

– Roger J. Corless

“Maybe what gives meaning is people who made a difference in your life and hopefully you make a difference in theirs.”

– Alfonso Cuarón

“There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve for you and the company. Then you empower them to achieve those goals using their own skills and talents in any way they choose. If, at the same time, you demonstrate how enormously you value them, not just through compensation, but also verbally, every single day, and if you enable that talent to share in the profit that they help create for you, you’ll be successful. It’s so simple, and virtually nobody does it, because it requires a high-trust working environment, and most business environments are low-trust. In order to own the future of your business, you have to design it around trust.”

– Cindy Gallop

“Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realise that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.” – Unknown

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

– Elie Wiesel

“Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.”

– Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, and all is well.”

– Dale Carnegie

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Accept reality as it is, as opposed to what you wish it were.”

– Elon Musk

“We chase what’s sexy and miss what matters.

While excitement starts something, execution completes it.

While speed makes a good story, velocity makes an outcome.

While complexity makes you sound smart, focusing on the key basics matters more.

While new commands our attention, old offers insight.”

– Shane Parrish (Farnham Street)

“When we ignore the body we are more easily victimised by it.”

– Milan Kundera

“Nothing in nature blooms all year round.”

– Fearne Cotton

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

– Hunter S. Thompson