Some quotations that resonate with me:
“Quantity has a quality all of it’s own”
Joseph Starlin, about the T34 tank
“Good enough today beats perfect tomorrow”
Unknown
“Simplification without distortion”
Julian Huxley, about public communication of science
“Real artists ship”
Steve Jobs, 1983, about the Macintosh computer
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”
Winston Churchill
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing”
Wernher von Braun
“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, – It can’t be done.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1960
“Stuck between thoughts and words”
Humans TV Show, 2015
“Hurihia to aroaro ki te ra tukuna to atarangi kia taka ki muri i a koe”
Māori Proverb which translates as – “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you”
“A true gentleman is only rude deliberately”
Winston Churchill
“When we loose our principles we invite chaos”
Mr Robot TV Series, 2015
“Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you’re honest with them – Then you’re an asshole”
George Carlin
“By three methods we may approach wisdom: First by reflection, which is nobelest; second by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius, 551–479 BC
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”
C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958, Parkinson’s Law
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
Margaret Atwood
“Seek knowledge from cradle to the grave”
Prophet Muhammad, 632
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them”
Warren Zevon
“Don’t compete, be outstanding.”
Unknown
“Artists don’t retire. They die. That’s all. When they stop being able to create art, they die.”
Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon
“If you think you are too old to rock’n’roll then you are.”
Lemmy Killminster
“The only person you should try to be better than is who you were yesterday.”
Unknown
“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
Isaac Newton
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
“We write to taste life twice: in the moment, and in retrospection.”
Anaïs Nin
“The only way we can learn and be safe is by intellectual humility”
Destin Sandlin
“Friendship means little when it’s convenient.”
John Wick
“The two most powerful warriors are patients and time.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Life is not governed by will or intention.”
Oscar Wilde
“Find the right people for the right role, empower them, then bind them with a culture which gets the best out of them.”
Steven Bartlett
“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
Friedrich Hegel
“History is a set of lies that everyone agrees on.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Jack London
“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”
Unknown
“Perfectionism is a heavy shield we carry believing it protects us. Actually it just stops us from being seen.”
Brené Brown
“The first person you need to be kind to is yourself.”
Unknown
“Fake it until you become it.”
Amy Cuddy
“Show up, control what you can, let go of what you can’t, leave knowing that you tried.”
Unknown
“The way we win matters.”
Ender Wiggin