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A thread of quotes I intend to maintain for the rest of my life
... or as long as @Twitter exists!
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“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it will split in two, & I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”
~ J Riis
~ J Riis
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
— Carl Jung
— Carl Jung
“If you don’t believe in any kind of magic or mystery, you are basically as good as dead."
― Before Sunset (summing up Albert Einstein)
― Before Sunset (summing up Albert Einstein)
“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”
— John Ruskin
— John Ruskin
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”
— Colette
— Colette
“Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”
— Adlai Stevenson
— Adlai Stevenson
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The trouble with market research is that people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.
— David Ogilvy
— David Ogilvy
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
— @bhorowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
— @bhorowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
— Friedrich Hayek
— Friedrich Hayek
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King junior
— Martin Luther King junior
When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.
― Nabil Sabio Azadi
― Nabil Sabio Azadi
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
― Norman Douglas, South Wind
― Norman Douglas, South Wind
