Elon Musk on Business
“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”
T. S. Eliot on Music
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
Bertrand Russell on Mathematics
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”
Will Rogers on Direction
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Steve Jobs on Innovation
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
C. S. Lewis on Life
“We are what we believe we are.”
Amanda Cross on Quotations
“The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Cynical Quote
“What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!”
Arthur C. Clarke on Science Fiction
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
Henri Matisse on Art
“A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.“
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Television
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”
Doug Larson on Children
“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.”
J. R. R. Tolkien on Motivation
“Little by little, one travels far.”
Benjamin Franklin on Government
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
Thomas Jefferson on Peace
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
Thomas Neill Cynical Quote
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.”
E. V. Lucas on Tardiness
“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”
William Blake on Forgiveness
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Nancy Astor on Change
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.”
Willie Tyler on Lightning
“The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.”
William Shakespeare on Honesty
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
Woody Allen on Life
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
Thomas Carlyle on Conceit
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
