Quotes

Things that stuck.

  • When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

    Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

    André Gide

  • There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.

    Alfred Henry Lewis

  • Either you can be part of the change, or the world can be designed without you and then you have to fit into that change.

    Brian Chesky (paraphrased)

  • Beliefs do not change facts. However, facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.

    Ricky Gervais (Tweet, Dec 19, 2018)

  • No amount of status can get you substance, but substance can get you status.

    Unknown

  • Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

    Buckminster Fuller

  • The key to winning a negotiation is having the most options.

  • Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes.

    Naval

  • Impatience with actions, patience with results.

    Naval Ravikant

  • A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

    John A. Shedd

  • No one learns new things faster than someone who needs to apply the knowledge right now. So if you want to learn fast, commit to something as soon as possible that requires it.

    Anu

  • You either come to realise what an idiot you used to be, or you remain as that idiot.

    Unknown

  • You meet emotion with emotion. You meet rational with rational. You can't mix the two.

    Simon Sinek (attributed)

  • Honesty doesn't have to happen in the moment. Delayed honesty is one of the best things than can make your relationships survive for a long time.

    Simon Sinek (attributed)

  • We can disagree and still be kind to each other.

  • Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.

    Ricky Gervais

  • Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

  • The point is to not remember the books, but be transformed by them.

    Unknown

  • Sometime you get so occupied trying to improve your life you all together forget to live it.

    Unknown

  • Taste is a quality of the consumer, not the product.

  • Most nutritious food doesn't have labels on it.

    Unknown

  • My passion is for sale, but it depends on the nature of work.

    Harish Sivaramakrishnan

  • If you have ideas, write. If you have taste, design. If you have vision, build.

    anu

  • brand guidelines are the floor, not the ceiling. they're there to protect the essence of the brand, not to suffocate creativity

    Luvas Crespo

  • Sometimes, people over-fixate anecdotes, but sometimes, these anecdotal events represent a general pattern.

    Balaji

  • It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

    Popularized by Grace Hopper

  • Be brave enough to be bad at something new.

    Jon Acuff

  • The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.'

    Ricky Gervais (attributed)