Eloquence didn’t imply intelligence or deep analysis.
Ender Wiggin, Ender in Exile
Tag: Quotes
Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost your temper, and never got down on yourself.
Jack Nicklaus
Imagine a world where everyone was constantly learning, a world where what you wondered was more interesting than what you knew, and curiosity counted for more than certain knowledge. Imagine a world where what you gave away was more valuable than what you held back, where joy was not a dirty word, where play was not forbidden after your eleventh birthday. Imagine a world in which the business of business was to imagine worlds people might actually want to live in someday. Imagine a world created by the people, for the people not perishing from the earth forever.
From The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger
Just think about it deeply and then forget it… and an idea will jump up in your face.
Don Draper, Mad Men.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.
From the essay Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, who was complaining about gossip and the trivialities of the daily news long before any of us were born. (via jackcheng)
Except in exceptional circumstances, I don’t like consulting books on matters which seem to me to be capable of being worked upon and dealt with through isolated mental activity, on the basis of direct personal observation.
Paul Valéry
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Margaret Thatcher
The things I most like to read, which force me to read them – and re-read them – are those I feel are moving me forward the most, which are not concerned with local matters, but growth, promise, extension – an outward detour which leads me back to myself, more enlightened and better armed.
Paul Valéry