Some Favorite Quotes & Adages ~ Please share yours!

• Hey, not my fault if the future breaks your business model. via @sebpaquet
  
  
• Screw it. I have an idea & I can't work for anyone else. Matt Hlavin at his Entrepreneur of the Year acceptance speech

• Humans are the etcetera of the universe. Carmen Medina (at SXSW 2013)
   
• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway

• Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. R Satoro via Vala Afshar

• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo

• I failed my way to success. Thomas Edison

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.  Albert Einstein

• The great obstacle (to discovery) is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.  Daniel J. Boorstin

• Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.  Henry Rosovsky

• I look to the future because that's where I am going to spend the rest of my life.  George Burns

• Never memorize something you can look up.  Albert Einstein

• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein

• There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.  Albert Einstein

• Uncertainty is when you've defined the variable but don't know it's value. Like when you roll a die and you don't kow if it will be a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. But ambiguity is when you're not even sure what the variables are.  You don't know how many dice are even being rolled or how many sides they have or which diece actually count for anything." Dev Patnaik

• I'm a collection of many things. I'm not one thing.  Raina Kumra

• The wildest colts make the best horses.  Plutarch

• Survival is based on a wilingness to be lucky.  E.B. White

• I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy.  My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce, and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.  John Adams in letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780

• I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.  Albert Einstein

• Be inspiring but not delusional. Deb Mills-Scofield

• Don't just stand and think.  Think and do at the same time!  Prof. Richard Fishman, Brown University

• Become more relevant by getting better at considering the irrelevant. Saul Kaplan

• Find a way to get in the way! Representative John Lewis

• No life guards are on duty when swimming in blue oceans.  Vala Afshar

• Dear innovator, when swimming in blue oceans, people like to remind you of shark sightings. Advice: take tarter sauce with you.  Vala Afshar

• I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso

• Criticize by Creating.  Michelangelo

• Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects... the quality of connections is the key to quality per se.  Charles Eames

• Turn insecurity into curiosity.  Deb Mills-Scofield

• If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.  Antoine de St. Exupery

• Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.  Brené Brown

• The best way of learning about anything is by doing. Sir Richard Branson

• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.  James Joyce 

• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind mind is a faithful servant.  We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.  Albert Einstein

• We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

• Entrepreneurship is not a job, it's a lifestyle.  Rock the Post

• Just because I'm not serious-minded doesn't mean I'm not serious. Leon Cooper, Nobel Prize 1972 

• Young people are stupid enough to try totally new things...as you grow older...you are encumbered by what you already know. Leon Cooper, Nobel Prize 1972

• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

• Serendipity: Finding what you were looking for all along without actually knowing it. Sabastian Olma 

• Let your vulnerability unlock somebody's extra-ordinary powers! Wasim Khan

• True leadership isn't about how many followers you have but how many new leaders you create. Cited by John Hagel

• True progress starts when your mindset shifts from entitled to privileged.  Vala Afshar