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
- The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo
- I failed my way to success. Thomas Edison
- 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
- 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
- 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
