The
fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the
life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.
The fear
of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
The fear
that instead of being doomed to failure, he might just fail without being
doomed.
The final
password was password.
The first
casualty of technology is ritual.
The first
draft of anything is shit.
The first
duty is to remember.
The first
follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
The first
half of our lives are ruined by our parents.
The second half by our children.
The first
law of holes: if you're in one, stop digging.
The first
man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. (Carnegie)
The first
mistake o f art is to assume that it’s serio us.
The first
rule is no t to
lo se.
The
second rule is not to forget the first rule.
The first
rule of business: once you make a sale, leave. Don’t be greedy and don’t try to
gild the lily.
The first
thirty seconds in a person’s presence are the most important.
The flip
side of conflict is contact.
The flow
of truth: it’s just as likely that fiction will become true as it is that the
truth will turn out to have been fiction all along. (Baudrillard)
The fox
knows many things and scurries after them all.
The hedgehog knows one big thing and stays focused like a laser.
The
function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which
time and mediocrity can resolve.
The
function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as
to make settled things strange.
The
futility of intolerance.
The
future ain't what it used to be.
The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The
future can't be predicted, but it can be invented.
The
future comes one day at a time.
The future
has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
The
future is a wonderful place. They do
things differently there.
The
future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed. (William
Gibson)
The
future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
The
future is not Google-able.
The
future of learning is not in the classroom alone.
The future
won’t be incremental.
The game is
not worth the candle.
The game
will survive in spite of all of the people in it.
The gap
between what you want and what you need.
The
generic allure of excess.
The
genuineness of a couple's affection for each other is inversely proportional to
the cuteness of their pet names for each other.
The gifts
of conception and of execution do not commonly reside in the same personality.
The girl
who can't dance says the band can't play.
The
glitzy, fleeting imitation of highlife and good luck for the habitually,
congenitally luckless.
The glut
has made us into gluttons who gorge and do not digest.
The goal
is to be both irresistible and invisible.
The goal
of life is to die young—as late as possible.
The goal
of physical fitness is not to feel better, but to endure more.
The Gods
are not altogether unkind.
The gods
thought otherwise.
The
golden prison.
The good
old days are good and gone now / That's why they're good, because they're gone.
The good shepherd
lays down his life for the sheep.
The grace
that they live together under the worst of circumstances.
The
graveyards are full of indispensable men.
The great
enemy of the truth is very often not the lie…but the myth.
The great
entrepreneur accomplishes his act of conception at the price of his own
extinction.
The great
have no friends. They merely know a lot
of people.
The great
poet moves quickly away from objective or external themes and ends up drawing a
portrait of himself. (“stellt sich selber dar”)
The great
tragedy of the artistic temperament is that it cannot produce any art.
The
greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds.
The
greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by mean of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding.
The
greatest generals are the victors.
The
greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require
happiness. (Saroyan)
The
greatest leader is the one who inspires his people, after the battle has been
won, to say they did it all themselves.
The
greatest loves in a person’s life are the ones that have a transformative
effect. You can’t really change; you can
only emerge.
The
greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
The
greedy murmur of little men.
The
grotesquely premature death of friends.
The
growing gap between expectation and reward.
The guy
who invented gambling was smart, but the guy who invented chips was a genius.
The hard
things are what we do.
The
harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing.
The
harder you work, the luckier you get.
The
hardest battle you fight every day is to be yourself in a world trying to make
you like everybody else.
The
hardest part isn’t inventing the solution, but figuring out how to get people
to adopt it.
The
hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
The
hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but
sheer stupidity.
The
hardest thing to do is to listen.
The
hardest time is always now. It's never
been harder. It never gets easier.
The
hardest work is to do nothing.
The heart
can make anything important. (Stendahl)
The heart
has its reasons that reason doesn’t know.
The
heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this
artifice, we manage to endure the burden of the past.
The
heaviest object in the world is the body of someone you have ceased to love.
The
hights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but
they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The
higher a monkey climbs up a tree, the more you see of his ass.
The
highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a
doubtful, if not a dangerous, possession.
The
highest level of creativity unfolds through play. (Einstein)
The
highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but rather what he
becomes by it.
The
heights by great men reached were not attained by sudden flight, but they,
while their companions were toiling upward in the night. (Longfellow)
The
hotter the fire, the tougher the metal.
The
hounds don’t shun the fox for being mangy.
The house
is burning and the clock is ticking.
The House
of Representatives is like a hot cup of coffee and the Senate is the saucer
that cools it.
The
hurried pace of life erodes our capacity to read.
The hurt
that losing brings lasts forever.
The idea
of escape is a fiction. You travel with
yourself wherever you are.
The idea
that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that
all ideas are equally valid.
The
ideal life: doing only things which are indispensable.
The idiot
had discovered Evan’s strength, which was implacable hatred, but he had shared,
and therefore missed altogether, his weakness, which was a lack of sufficient
imagination.
The idle
supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along.
The
idolatry of data
The
images I willingly surrender creep forth dangerously sweet. Beautiful and vibrant. Delicately raging.
The
impo rtant thing is this: to be able at any time to
sacrifice what we are fo r what we co uld beco me.
The
ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable
tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today. Never say never.
The
innocent never insist upon the guilt of others.
The
instant a situation involves more than one person, it is political.
The
intellect is always fooled by the heart.
The
intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether
it is true or not.
The Internet
can make you smarter, but it can’t make you smart.
The
Internet is a kind of small town.
Everybody will go to www.something and they won’t go anywhere else, at
least not often.
The
Internet is like flying. It's not
inherently dangerous. It's just terribly
unforgiving.
The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that
honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. (Einstein)
The IQ of
the management team is the lowest common denominator of the intelligence of the
people around the table.
The
island of broken toys.
The itch
to make dark marks on white paper is shared by writers and artists.
The
journey is 1 percent finished. (MZ)
The joy
of writing, when you’re writing from your subconscious, is beautiful—it’s
thrilling. And when you’re editing,
which is your conscious mind, it’s like torture.
The joys
of life bed down on broken glass.
The
key to mistakes is knowing which ones to keep.
The key
to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we
fear.
The kind
of coach that doesn’t want your love, just your respect.
The
kingdom may be shrinking but it still has its throne.
The
kingdom of the human heart is large.
The
last freedom is attitude.
The last
of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of
circumstances.
The last
we saw of them was when they kissed/then beautifully naked walked as if into a
sea of bright blue water/leaving their bodies like old clothes upon the shore.
The last
woman I was inside was the Statue of Liberty.
The
law of accumulation: the sum total of a lot of little things isn't little.
The
leader’s job is to be right at the end of the meeting, not at the beginning.
The
leopard does not change his spots.
The less
you bet, the more you lose when you win.
The level
of intensity with which you approach life never varies from activity to
activity unless you cease to care about what you are doing.
The
liar’s punishment is not that he is not believed, but that he can believe no
one else.
The lie
is the basic building block of good manners.
The life
fo rce is best represented by the
livid twitching o f o ne to rtured
nerve o r even a full-scale anxiety
attack.
The life o f the law has no t
been lo gic; it has been experience.
The life
you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you’ll have.
The light
from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
The
lights dancing on dark water, as in the old prints, the sound of voices,
laughter, music, all faint, alluring, far off.
The line
between dreaming and writing was nothing more than a thin, translucent line.
The links
of the chain are forged not with cruelties but with luxuries.
The list
is an absolute good. The list is
life. All around its margins lies the
gulf.
The locus
of power struggles conducted through farce, comedy, irony, transcendence, and,
of course, commerce.
The
loftier your goals, the higher your risk, the greater your glory.
The
long term is really just a bunch of short terms stick together.
The longer
one lives, the less importance one attaches to importance.
The look
of a woman who will always veer away from happiness before the thought of
losing it becomes unbearable.
The
lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
The
machine is neither a god nor a devil.
The
maggot genius of American culture.
The
magic's the magic within you.
The
mailed fist wielded with justice gets more respect than the velvet glove
deployed with compassion.
The main
thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The man
ain't really evil, he jes' ain't got no sense.
The man
carrying the cat gets 10 times as much experience as the one watching the man
carrying the cat.
The man I
miss most is the man I could have been.
The man
of genius is constantly angry and sometimes even belligerent.
The man
on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The
man was a hero under fire and a coward when he wasn't.
The man
who has done right does not feel compelled to explain why.
The man
who has no imagination has no wings.
The man
who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
The man
who never made an enemy never made anything.
The
market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. (Keynes)
"The
mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song
still in them."
The
mathematical consequence of paranoid assumptions (cryptography).
The
memory of things gone is important. Things like old folks singing in the
moonlight or something said long ago.
The
metric for success evolves as you progress.
The milk
of sacred cows has a way of turning sour.
The mind
is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
The
minute you establish an organization, it starts to decay.
The
minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled
for.
The
minute that you think you understand a work of art, it’s dead to you.
The
moaning at the bar.
The
moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
The
moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever.
The money
is always there, but the pockets change.
The
monkey jumps into the water.
The
moon could not go on shining if it paid attention to the little dogs that bark
at it.
The more
advanced the mind, the greater the need for recreation.
The more
choices people have, the less likely they are to choose anything.
The more
dogmatic the leader, the faster the culture develops either through conformity
or attrition.
The more
elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. (Priestley)
The more
I like me, the less I want to pretend
The more
I know, the less I understand.
The more
I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
The more
it tells you, the less you know.
The more
original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
The more
perfect the artist, the greater the separation between the individual who
suffers and the mind that creates.
The more
powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of
solitude.
The more
things change, the more they remain insane.
The more
trivial the defect, the more anger it inspires.
The more
you get, the more you want.
The more
you leave out, the more we see ourselves in the picture, the more we project
our own thoughts onto it.
The
more you reason, the less you create.
The most
certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The most
common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do.
The most
common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying.
The most
complex relationship anyone has is not with any other person, but with time.
The most
destructive criticism is indifference.
The most
difficult way is in the long run, the easiest.
The most
effective way to cope with change is to create it.
The most exhausting
thing in life is being insincere.
The most
expensive thing you’ll ever buy is money.
The most
important attribute of a college president is the capacity to inflict pain.
The most
important job of a leader is to create more leaders.
The most important
thing is to begin.
The Most
Valuable Real Estate Today is Your Smartphone Screen
The most
important things in life you cannot see – civility, justice, courage, peace.
The most
often overlooked variable in decision-making is the cost of not acting.
The most
pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.
(Helen Keller)
