T
2
is better than 0 (Bezos)
200 pound
baby – lots of power – totally immature
Tainted
money – Only time it’s tainted is when it t’ain’t enough.
Tact is
the ability to describe others as they see themselves. (Lincoln)
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to
hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. (Churchill)
Take a hint when a
hint is intended and don’t take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
Take a
stand and make enemies.
Take an
object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Ditto. (Jasper Johns)
Take big
(calculated) risks that move the needle.
Take care
or the dog will bark.
Take care
to make things turn out well. Some
people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than
successfully reaching their goals. The
disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
Take care to sell
your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Take it
seriously; not personally.
Take more
money than you need. Take it before you
need it. Don’t be a pig on valuation.
Take
responsibility for your mistakes.
Take the
money. Take it all. Take it now.
Takers
may eat well, but givers sleep well.
Taking something with value and
substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing.
Talent,
felicity -/these things withdraw/And are succeeded by a dingier cr
Talent
and hard work are no substitute for self-confidence.
Talent
develops itself in solitude, character in life’s stream.
Talent
hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Talent
is always there, it never leaves you and it becomes a kind of crutch. You
expect people to be as loyal to you as your talent is and when they're not, you’re
devastated.
Talent is
cheaper than table salt. What separates
the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Talent is God given. Be humble.
Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Talent is
only the starting point in this business.
Talent is
universal, but opportunity is not.
Talk a
dog off a meat wagon.
Talk
about a dream, try to make it real.
Talk at
me and you talk alone. Talk about
me and I'll listen for hours.
Talk is
cheap until you talk to your lawyer.
Talk
slow but think quick.
Talking
back to your radio or TV.
Talking
to Ted is like talking to a radio.
Talking
to you is like playing violin to a water buffalo.
Talking
with architects is like sending shirts to the laundry. You know what you sent, but you aren’t sure
what you are going to get back.
Talking
without feeling anything is different from talking without knowing anything.
Tall
trees experience strong winds.
Taste
is his skill.
Taste is
never a democratic process.
Teach
concepts, not facts.
Teach us
to care and not to care.
Teach
your team to take their time.
Teachers
can change the face
Teachers
don’t teach subjects. They teach students.
Teaching
depends on what other people think, not what you think.
Teaching is learning twice.
Teaching
is not the same as instruction.
Teamwork
makes the dream work.
Teamwork
overcomes adversity.
Tears are just a lullaby.
Tears we
shed at the movies are sterile. We weep, but we aren’t wounded. We grieve, but
our grief is not bitter.
Technology.
It almost works.
Technology
can augment us or replace us.
Technology doesn’t want to be good or bad, it’s in the hands of
the creator whether it becomes good or bad.
Technology-enabled
architectures of collaboration
Technology
is like bands. It rarely lasts forever.
Technology
is not zero sum – we are building new industries and growing the pie.
Technology is so focused on the future that lessons from the
past are often neglected.
Technology
is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Technology
is no different from steel. Is steel good or bad?
Technology
made things just easy enough so we can put more on people’s plates, but we
didn’t factor in how much that would pull out of their time.
Technology
money follows different assumptions than content money.
Technology
should be clever, useful, cheap and available to all.
Technology
should be pervasive, but not invasive.
Technology
will make or break us.
Technology’s
arc of seduction: from distrust to dependence; from duty to desire.
Teetering
between confidence and blame.
Tell
me. I may forget.
Show
me. I may remember.
Involve
me. I will understand.
Tell me a
story.
Tell me
early, I’m your friend. Tell me late, I’m your critic.
Tell me
if you can do it. Otherwise, I will find people who can.
Tell me
less about how this product came to be, and tell me more about what’s in it for
me.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and
precious life? (Mary Oliver)
Tell me
what you pay attention to and I'll tell you who you are.
Tell me
where I'm going to die, and I'll be sure not to go there.
Tell the
story, take out the good lines and see if it still works.
Tell the
truth and run.
Tell the truth, then you don’t have to remember a story.
Tell
your people where to go – not how to get there
Telling
and selling.
Telling
is selling (David Oglivie)
Telling
people what to do without showing them how is a waste of everyone’s time.
Temperament
is more important than IQ.
Ten
floors of basement.
Ten
minutes early is on time.
Term
Sheet: Want to be confirming not
exploring or discovering.
Terror
and violence are midwives. We bring
nations into the world.
Tests of
love always end badly.
Test is
going away, but paper is. We need journalism, not newspapers.
Thank you
for not whining.
That day
she put our heads together/ fate had her imagination about her/ your head so
much concerned with outer/ mine with inner, weather.
That
depends a good deal on where you want to get.
That feeling you get after eating junk food — full, but not
nourished, bloated, tired and vaguely nauseous.
That
glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.
That man
will be revolutionary who can revolutionize himself.
That
place where you can’t remember and you can’t forget.
That
pleasant mood of mind where gaiety and pensiveness intermingle (Hawthorne)
That
rationale is so far from reality that I can’t see it with a telescope.
That shit
sells on Sandhill Road
That was
a stupid lie, easy to expose, not worthy of you.
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was
discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in
fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every
procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it. (Joan D)
That
which is understood need not be mentioned.
That
which makes us safe imprisons us.
That’s a
trail nothing but a nose can follow.
That’s
all right, that’s ok. You will work for
us some day.
That’s
comparing leprosy to cancer.
That's
men for you: hams of cool.
That’s
not writing, it’s typing.
That’s the best we can do in life — be truthful
and hope those truths become lanterns for others as they wander through the
dark.
That's
what happens when easy money gets hard.
That’s
what hearts do. They beat and they break.
That’s
what learning is. You suddenly
understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
That’s
why I quit school – I never liked recess.
That's
why the windshield is a lot bigger than the rearview mirror.
That’s
why they call it Mastery and not Minute Maid
That's why you read, not only for the
fulfillment, but the advantage.
The
ability to concentrate on one thing for a long time is a huge advantage.
The
ability to get out of any situation all that there is in it.
The ability
to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive
advantage.
The ability
to make one person miserable for a moment rather than making 250 people
miserable for a lifetime.
The
ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been
imagined.
The
ability to succinctly express an idea is virtually as important as the idea
itself.
The absence of accountability is not neutrality, but affirmance:
an invitation to wrongdoers to escalate wrongdoing and for others to follow
suit.
The
absence of alternatives clears the mind.
The
absent are always at fault.
The accumulated competition of history.
The act
of diplomacy isn’t forcing people to do what you like. It’s persuading people to do what they don’t
like.
The
act of “doing” often contextualizes our thoughts.
The act
of measuring alters that which is being measured.
The
act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. (M.Albright)
The aesthetic isn’t bounded by art, which merely concentrates it
for efficient consumption.
The age of acceleration - an age of both
stunning advances and horrific dislocations. A period of radical uncertainty in
which predictions are likely to be wrong and midrange plans are likely to
become obsolete.
The
amateur actor “indicates” rather than “inhabits” the role.
The
American Dream has become a taunt. (constantly increasing cost of college
education)
The
adjacent possible
The
amusements didn’t amuse me.
The
answer is the product.
The
anticipation of a problem is far worse than the problem itself.
The
appetite grows with the eating.
The apple
never falls far from the tree.
The art
of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The art of
drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
The art of
life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure much.
The art of
life is to show your hand. There is no
diplomacy like candor. You may lose by
it now and then, but it will be a loss well-earned if you do. Nothing is tougher than keeping up a deception.
The art of
losing isn’t hard to master. (David Broza)
The art of
lying is the art of the practical. The important thing about a lie is not that
it be interesting, fanciful, graceful or even pleasant but that it be
believed. Let it be blunt and forthright
and so simple that you can repeat it in detail and under oath 10 years later.
The art of
the expected.
The art
of war is about legs, not arms.
The
artist always transfers from people to product.
The
artist’s audience is his peers.
The
atrium of diminished expectations.
The
attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots.
The
author of freedom is not indifferent to the fate of freedom.
The “awareness threshold” — 60 percent of a cohort using social
media — was reached for urban, college-educated 18- to 49-year-olds in 2011. A
more conservative demographic crossed this threshold in 2016.
The
awful daring of a moment’s surrender/which an age of prudence can never
retract.
The
bartered self.
The
battle for capital is now a battle for attention and mindshare.
The
bear knows 40 stories, but all of them are about pears.
The
beginning is always today.
The
beginning of the war will be secret.
The beginning
point in any enterprise is to discuss the best that ought to be.
The benefit of being slightly out of step with
your own moment is that you’re timeless.
The best
a man can give is his living spirit to a service that is not easy.
The best
always succeeds.
The best
answer to anger is silence.
The best
armor is to keep out of range.
The best
change leaders combine courage with genuine humility and a strong desire to
learn.
The
best companies are “bought”, not “sold”.
The best competition I have is against myself.
The
best entrepreneurs run toward their fears, not away from them.
The best
equity is sweat equity.
The best
fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
The best
fights are the ones you don’t have.
The best
idea in the room wins.
The best
kind of heroism is to be found in the relentless practice of one’s profession.
The best
lack all conviction / while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity.
(Yeats)
The best
laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men gang aft agley. (Robert Burns)
The best
leaders…almost without exception and at every level, are master users of
stories and symbols.
The best
liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The best
mirror is a friend’s eye.
The best
narrative wins.
The best
new clients are old clients buying new and additional things.
The
best people don’t give you answers. Answers are everywhere these days and
easy. They ask questions that you’ve
never thought of which lead to new ways of thinking about old problems.
The
best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the
discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their
virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. (Hemingway)
The best
person you interview isn’t necessarily the best person for the job.
The best
predictor of success is how people explain their failures.
The best predictor of voting behavior is voting
behavior.
The best
programmers are ten times more productive than the worst ones.
The best
qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.
The best
relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for
each other.
The best
religions have great hats.
The best salespeople
take it personally.
The best
startups are built for distance and for speed
The best
stories are both inevitable and surprising.
The
best teacher is your last mistake.
The
best teachers are not only instructors. They are mentors and guides who can
raise the confidence of their students, help them find a sense of direction,
and empower them to believe in themselves.
The
best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
The best things and
best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society
because I want the cream to rise.
The best
things in life aren’t things.
The best
time to keep a customer is before he or she leaves.
The best time to save a democracy, is before
it’s lost.
The best view comes after the hardest climb.
The best
way out is through.
The best
way to be in the room where it happens is to be the one who called the meeting.
The best
way to deceive someone is first to deceive yourself.
The best way to find out if you can trust
somebody is to trust them. (Hemingway)
The best
way to get approval is not to need it.
The best
way to make history is to write it.
The best
way to predict the future is to invent it.
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is
to lay a straight stick alongside it.
The best
we can hope for from each other is mercy.
The
bleeding always stops – one way or the other.
The big labels
are just trying to make a little music in the money business.
The
big money is not in the buying and selling. But in the waiting.
The
bigger the elephant, the better the monkey's odds.
The
bigger the empire, the more beholden the center becomes to the periphery.
The
bigger the stakes for your opponent, the easier they are to bluff.
The
biggest blowhard still beats the brightest bulb.
The
biggest change brought about by the Internet is not its immediacy or its low
cost, but its massive improvements in measurability and accountability.
The biggest difference between money and time is that you always
know how much money you have, but you never know how much time you have.
The biggest lie we tell
ourselves is, “I don’t need to write this down because I will remember it.”
The biggest journey in all of our lives is the journey from
external to internal validation.
The
biggest money is in the smallest sales.
The
biggest risk in life is never taking one.
The
biggest room in our company is the room for improvement.
The
biggest wounds in life are self-inflicted. (Bill Clinton)
The
blade calls to acts of violence.
"The
Bleeding Edge of Technology"
The body
of a child lies like a broken doll in the street.
The boss
at an office party: with that curious brand of informality which never
relinquishes authority.
The buoyancy of your
heart and your peace of mind aren’t ruled by any arithmetic. They’re governed
by attitude — by whether you fully cherish the highs and find grace in the face
of the lows.
The
brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the
morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The brands that
will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.
The
bravest thing I’ve ever said is “help”.
The
breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the competition.
The brown
moist thing in the middle of the table is not always a brownie, it could be a
turd.
The
Buddha of the befuddled.
The burden
of accuracy lay heavy on Time.
The business dies when the founder gives
up
The
business of beauty is ugly.
The
business of education is the most important business there is.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people
how to see without a camera.
The
campaign represents a bunch of rich people talking to each other in front of
the help.
The car is rusting out through the floorboards
and the engine is seized up, but we’re debating who gets to drive.
The
careful application of terror is also a form of communication.
The
carnies know they’re carnies.
The
caterpillar is safe in the cocoon, but it’s the butterfly that’s beautiful.
The
certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty.
The
chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
The
challenge ahead
The challenge arises when we take our eyes off
of what we set out to build in the first place.
The chances of getting something done are a function
of the time between conception and construction.
The child
is father
The
cheese is off the cracker.
The
choice not to do something is almost always more interesting than the
choice to do something.
The clearer the vision… the fewer the
choices… the quicker the decisions.
The
closer you sit, the more you learn.
The
colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
The
collapse of time and space between partners.
The color
of television
The comfortable and the familiar are the harbingers of weakness
and fear.
The
community is too heavy for anyone to carry alone.
The
company is really run after 5:00 pm.
The
competition can’t hold a candle to Kendall.
The
complete encapsulation of a single person's fantasy.
The
consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to the fact that
meanwhile we may have improved.
The
consumer isn't a moron. She's your wife.
The contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the
high intentions of the future.
The
conversation always turns to living long enough to have fun.
The
conventional army loses if it does not win.
The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
The conveyer belt of distractions we scroll through on our
devices which have been algorithmically optimized to maximize someone else’s
objective.
The
corporate media idea that being fair means having to give both sides in every
argument, even if one side’s claims are lies and bullshit, is antiquated and
harmful.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which
is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. (Thoreau)
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
The counterpart to a
misogynist is a misandrist.
The
course of a man's life is not bounded by its origins.
The
creation of new ideas requires a willingness to defend assertions that others
do not yet believe, to be vulnerable, to accept criticism, and to be resilient.
The
crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
The
critic gets as close to the creative process as the crab louse does to the
process of making love.
The
cruelest acts are the unintentional ones.
The
cruelest disappointment is when you let yourself down.
The cure
for boredom is curiosity. There is no
cure for curiosity.
The curse
of efficiency is that it always goes to the lowest common denominator.
The curse
of pure talent.
The
customers always write.
The cynic
sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
The
damage was minute, subtle and utterly effective.
The dance
of democracy.
The
danger comes once you feel you've arrived.
The
danger in realizing our limitations is that, all too often, we limit our
realizations.
The
danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will
begin to think like computers.
The
daughters of lions are lions, too.
The
daunting power of the status quo
The Day After Tomorrow
Was Yesterday.
The day
is not going to take care of itself.
The day
you stop learning is the day you stop growing.
The days
are long, but the years are short.
The days
behind us determine the days ahead.
The dead
abandon you and then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead.
The deal
is the sex while the movie is just the cigarette.
The deed
is everything, the glory nothing.
The deep
motive is a longing to arrest and reverse the movement of time, to recover some
of the ardor and bewilderment of youth.
The
destruction that wasteth at noonday.
The devil
can quote scripture for his purpose.
The devil
is in the details.
The devil
writes the biggest check.
The
dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
The
difference between a car salesman and a computer salesman is that the car
salesman knows when he is lying.
The
difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The
difference between an average horse and a champion is that a champion always
has something left when it comes around the last turn.
The difference between genius
and stupidity is that genius has its limits. (Albert Einstein)
The
difference between opinions & principles. Opinions are easy to hold &
cheap to change, and their value is commensurate. Principles, on the other
hand, are things for which you are willing to sacrifice. Willing to draw a
line.
The
difference between toys and tools.
The
difference between truth and lies is feeling. A lie is easy, because it’s
pulled from the air, unanchored by reality or emotion. The truth is hard,
because you’re willing to confront something real in the world & within
yourself, & you can’t do that without feeling pain or guilt or the darkness
of knowledge, or even the depth of your love for another.
The difference between who you are and who you want to be is
what you do to make it happen.
The
disappearing dreams of yesterday.
The disorienting, vivid evidence that hope wins.
The
distortion field of memory.
The dog
is a lion in his own house.
The dog
returns to its vomit.
The dog
that caught the car.
The
dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion. (Abe
Lincoln)
The dogs
may bark, but the caravan moves on.
The doing is often more important than the outcome. (Arthur
Ashe)
The
Dunning-Kruger effect describes a demonstrated cognitive weakness, that the
less we know about something, the more we overestimate our knowledge.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive human bias
that causes us to overestimate our abilities in domains where we have low
competence.
The early bird gets
the turd.
The early bird may
get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The
easier the deal is to get done, the harder it will be to implement.
The
easier shopping gets, the more mindless buying becomes.
The
easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
The easy
decisions never make it to my desk, only the hard ones.
The
efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
The eggs should step up; they have nothing to
lose but their yolks.
The
elation you feel is directly proportional to the sacrifices you make.
The
elimination of the insignificant.
The end
is nothing, the road is all.
The endless American capacity for denial.
The enemy
of the better is the best.
The
enemy’s diversion that you are ignoring is the main attack.
The endless desire to pull someone else along
with you in your joy and excitement
The entire history of capitalism is a lesson that you can be very
successful and also very terrible.
The
entire world is a narrow bridge, but the main thing is not to fear.
The
epochs are discerned by the types of people who lead them.
The
equity of experience.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and
baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are
entering a period of consequences.
The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
The
errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the
truths of little men.
The
essence of film is showing people what they want to see.
The evanescence of language
The evil that men do lives
after them; the good is often interred with their bones. (Shakespeare)
The evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.
The
excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The
excitement wasn’t worth the uncertainty.
The
expert in anything was once a beginner.
The
expert is the one who says it takes the longest and costs the most.
The
extraordinary potency of cheap music. (Noel; Coward)
The eye
must travel.
The eyes
of someone who had been insulted in ways no one could understand.
The
fabric of factuality.
The
facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant.
The facts
can have diverse interpretations, but there cannot be diverse facts.
The
faintest ink is clearer than the sharpest memory.
The
faintest of human of all human passions is the love of truth. (Housman)
The false
promise that the sacrifices we make for our careers are always worth it.
The
fame-making apparatus confers celebrity on an individual in a conflagration so
intense that he or she can’t possibly survive.
The quick and pitiless end of such a person’s career is inherent in the
first gathering glimmers of fame. This
is how time is collapsed.
The
family is living on borrowed time.
The
family lived at the end of their nerves and at the top of their lungs.
The
farther away the future is, the better it looks.
The
faster we run, the further away the dreams that we chase become.
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
battle is always won or lost in your head.
The first
casualty of technology is ritual.
The first
draft of anything is shit.
The first
duty is to remember. The first duty of a business is to stay in business.
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 of art is to assume that it’s serious.
The first
principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to
fool.
The first
rule is not to lose. 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 step in winning is believing you can
win.
The first
thirty seconds in a person’s presence are the most important.
The first
to ask is the last to know.
The fish
got hooked because it opened its mouth.
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 food is awful—and such small portions!
The
forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was
clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was
one of them.
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 good journalism is to take information and add value to it. (John
Chancellor)
The
function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as
to make settled things strange.
The
functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship,
compassion and empathy.
The
further out I schedule things, the greater the likelihood that I will regret
them
The
futility of good intentions.
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. (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
The
future can't be predicted, but it can be invented.
The future comes from the slime and not the heavens.
The
future comes one day at a time.
The future
has a way of arriving unannounced. |
The
future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
The
future is a freight train and we can all hear the whistle and it says….
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 important because we are going to spend the rest of our lives there.
The
future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
The
future is not Google-able.
The
future is promised to no one.
The future is unpredictable and open to change while the past
remains static and subject only to correction.
The
future is what we make of it. What do we
owe the future?
The
future isn't something to be feared; it's something to be shaped.
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 of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt.
The game plan — they
flood the zone with garbage to overwhelm evidence-based reality.
The game
they thought was an art is just another mechanism – no more inaccessible to the
strength of computers than the assembly of an automobile.
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 gift
for imitation first and innovation second. (Japanese culture)
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 not physical presence, but connectedness. We need to rewire the architecture
of connectedness.
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 goal was to be fast, but fast in the
long run, not fast in the short run
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 goose
is still laying golden eggs, they’re just smaller every year.
The grace
that they live together under the worst of circumstances.
The grass may be greener on the other side
because it is fertilized by bullshit.
The
graveyards are full of indispensable men.
The great
end of life is not knowledge, but action.
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
greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
The
greater the similarity between products, the smaller part reason plays in brand
selection.
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 illusion is that life should be perfect.
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
greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. (Roald Dahl)
The greatness of America lies not in being more
enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her
faults.
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
growing only happens on your own.
The
guerrilla warrior must swim among the people as a fish swims through the sea.
The guy
who invented gambling was smart, but the guy who invented chips was a genius.
The
half-truths, repeated, authenticated themselves. (Didion)
The hard
things are what we do.
The harder I work, the luckier I
get.
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 decisions are having to choose between bad options in a difficult
environment. Bear markets and bad relationships require intelligence (i.e.,
nuance). Bull markets and good relationships only require bravado and presence.
The
hardest part isn’t inventing the solution but figuring out how to get people to
adopt it.
The
hardest part of the job was learning to live with disappointment. You have this
thing in your head and you can’t do it. You see your vision leaking away.
The
hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
The hardest thing of all is to find a
black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. (Conf)
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 hardness of the
butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
The hawk
with talent hides its talons.
The heart
can make anything important. (Stendahl)
The heart
has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. (Blaine Pascal)
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 hope is a touch of graceful humor, no matter what's
occurring. The ability to laugh, the ability to see the ridiculous, the ability
not to tense up too much, when things become impossible, just to face them
anyhow. (Bukowski)
The
hospice is a mordant metaphor for human existence, a place where laughter isn’t
the best medicine, it’s the only medicine: All we’ve got left is a collection
of bedpans and deadpans.
The
hottest new programming language is English.
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 human
mind, though, is capable of much more than a job will demand of it.
The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.
(Churchill)
The
hurried pace of life erodes our capacity to read.
The hurt
that losing brings lasts forever.
The idea is to die young as late as
possible." - Ashley Montagu
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 ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi
or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact
and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true
and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. (Hannah Arendt)
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
illusion that time is a limitless resource.
The
images I willingly surrender creep forth dangerously sweet. Beautiful and vibrant. Delicately raging.
The imagination is a palette of bright colors.
You can use it to touch up memories or you can use it to paint dreams.
The importance of being a short-term pessimist and a long-term
optimist.
The
important thing is this: to be able at any time to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become.
The important thing to remember is that I'm
probably going to forget." – Unknown
The infinite horizon of gratitude.
The
ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable
tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today. Never say never.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.--
Winston Churchill
The
innocent never insist upon the guilt of others.
The
instant a situation involves more than one person, it is political.
The
insurmountable distance between who you were and who you’ve become.
The
intellect is always fooled by the heart.
The intelligence of a future day.
The
intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether
it is true or not.
The
Internet brings the whole world close but no one near.
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
Internet will strut an hour upon the stage, and then take its place in the
ranks of the lesser media. (London Times editor Simon Jenkins)
The intersection of addiction and envy.
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 job
of the gardener is to create the best conditions for that to happen.
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 juice wasn’t worth the squeeze.
The
key is saying smart things simply.
The key is that the lie is sustainable as long
as the marks are also lying to themselves.
The key to everything is
patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it.
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
“King’s Horse Can Talk” strategy.
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
talk, the better.
The less
you bet, the more you lose when you win.
The less you talk, the
more you’re listened to.
The
lessons that cost the most teach the most.
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 lie
outlasts the liar.
The life
f
The life
of the law has not been logic; 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 line between our myths and our memories is
indeed very thin.
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
little things are the big things
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 run is always shorter than we imagine.
The
long run is made of short runs. Getting better every day
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
longer you benchmark to an irrelevant standard, the more ground you lose and
the more time you waste
The look
of a woman who will always veer away from happiness before the thought of
losing it becomes unbearable.
The
lowest moments can lead to the highest heights.
The
lows are lower than the highs are high.
The
lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
The
machine is neither a god nor a devil.
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the
antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Slowed-down
responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero.
The
maggot genius of American culture.
The magic
wand store is closed for good.
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 ingredient of stardom
is the rest of the team.
The main
problem with moving to Florida is that you have to live in Florida.
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. (Muhammad Ali)
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
market decides what it wants.
The
market doesn’t give a crap who your Dad is.
"The
mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song
still in them."
The
master’s tools can’t dismantle the master’s house.
The
mathematical consequence of paranoid assumptions (cryptography).
The maximum use of force is by no means incompatible with the
simultaneous use of the intellect.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
The
measure of intelligence is the ability to change. (Einstein)
The measure of someone's greatness,
is the length of their downward reach, to firmly grasp the hand of another, and
then pull them up.
The meeting of two personalities is like the
contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are
transformed. (Carl Jung)
The
melancholy of nostalgia.
The memories you have are just recordings of
things past, not chains to bind you.
The
memory of things gone is important. Things like old folks singing in the
moonlight or something said long ago.
The
message being communicated to Black and Latino people is that our presence is
what matters, not our performance.
The
metric for success evolves as you progress.
The middle of the
road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
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 understand that you can poke life, and if you
push in, then something will pop out the other side; that you can change it,
you can mold it. The most important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion
that life is there, and you’re just going to live in it versus embrace it,
change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”
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 mistake of a smart person is equivalent to the mistakes of
10 idiots.
The
moaning at the bar.
The
moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. (Martina
N)
The
moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever.
The
moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
(Navratilova)
The
moment we automate a task, we downgrade the relevant skill involved to one of
mere mechanism.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be
immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought
becomes impossible. (Salman Rushdie)
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 acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.
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
difficult the decision, the less it matters what you choose.
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 good behaviors you have, the better things turn out.
It’s just whether people have the discipline to repeat those
behaviors? That’s the tricky part.
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
I practice, the luckier I get. (Gary Player)
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 we value things, the less we value
ourselves.
The more
you get, the more you want.
The more
you invest in something, the harder it becomes to abandon it.
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 pay for artwork, the more likely it is that your investment will
retain its value.
The
more you reason, the less you create.
The more
you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.
The more
you trade, the more you lose.
The more you’re
willing to put in, the more you’re going to get out.
The most beautiful ark that never sailed.
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 confident people are comfortable with
silence. They listen.
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
exciting discoveries happen at the intersections.
The most
exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
The most
expensive lunch you will ever have is the one that somebody else buys for you.
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 important trip you may take in life is
meeting people halfway.
The most important word in art is "proportion".
The most
important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out
why?
The most
important predictor of ultimate success is how people learn from and explain
their failures.
The
most important skills are forged, not taught.
The most important thing
in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. (Peter Drucker)
The most
important things in life you cannot see – civility, justice, courage, peace.
The most
important word in art is "proportion”.
The most often overlooked variable in
decision-making is the cost of not acting.
The most
painful state of being is remembering the future.
The most
pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.
(Helen Keller)
The most
popular shows on broadcast TV aren’t the best shows – they’re the least
objectionable
The most
powerful advantage of money is the ability to think of things other than money.
Money frees your mind for living.
The most
profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the
fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. (Mark Weiser)
The most
profound things are inexpressible.
The most
prominent cause of death in start-ups is too rapid growth.
The most
treacherous prisons are in the mind.
The Most
Valuable Real Estate Today is Your Smartphone Screen.
The most
vital task is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a
certain goal.
The
motivational coaching space has exploded with the loss of faith in organized
religion.
The motto
here is not work hard but dream hard.
The museum
isn’t the answer. The museum is the question. (Elie W)
The music
business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where
thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.
The
musician who has not been paid doesn't play well. (El musico paco no toca bien.)
The mystery wasn’t why it didn’t clean up at the box office,
but why anyone thought it would.
The
mysteries of the trade become no mysteries; but are as it were in the air.
The nail
whose head sticks up gets hit.
The
nature of all work is to be well prepared for a good accident.
The
nature of distribution is changing the ways creators get their works to the
world
The
nature of men is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.
The
nature of men is such that most forget more easily the death of their fathers
than the loss of their property.
The need
for action cannot be avoided by flight into rhetoric or retreat into analysis.
The
negotiations begin when the contract is signed.
The
new is for the few.
The
news media is always drawn to conflict, outrage and failure.
The
Next Big Thing will be a million small things.
The next
one… (Tom Brady)
The nice
thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
The
nicest thing about not carefully planning is that failure comes as a complete
surprise and is not preceded by a period of depression.
The night
is bitter/The stars have lost their glitter/The winds grow colder/ and suddenly
you’re older/ and all because of a gal who got away.
The night
is lit by the reflected light of your presence, though it be half a continent
away.
The
nostalgia trap: the way we never were.
The
notion of membership in anything sounds like a trick.
The notion that men own
the law and women own their pain is deeply ingrained in our legal system.
The notion that people have
principles around where they get their revenue from is ridiculous.
The notion
that you, the reader, are not their client but their product.
The
number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can
fail and keep on trying.
The
obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
The
obstacle to progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
The
obvious isn't always that apparent.
The old
hecoon walks just before the light of day.
The old
stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put into its place.
The older I get, the better I used to
be." – Lee Trevino
The older I get, the more clearly I remember
things that never happened. - Mark Twain
The older
we get, the better we were.
The
older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for." - Will
Rogers
The older
you get, the easier it is to resist temptation, and the harder it is to find
it.
The
oldest story line in history: from the raw to the cooked.
The one
certainty for anyone in the path of an avalanche is that standing still is not
an option.
The one
charm of the past is that it is past.
The one
thing I know about power is that the good never seek it.
The one
thing you don’t know how to do is stop.
The one
thing your friends will never forgive is your happiness.
The one
who blinks first is not always the weaker one.
Sometimes he is the wiser one.
The one
who cares the most wins.
The one
who is right is the one who decides.
The ones
who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous
yellow Roman candles, exploding like spiders across the stars.
The one
who wins is the one who is best prepared.
The only antidote
to mental suffering is physical pain.
The only
certain freedom is in departure.
The only
content that gets seen today is content that is authentically shared
The only
cure for decadence is the rise of new energies.
The
only degree you need is a degree of caring.
The only
difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
The
only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past and
every sinner has a future.
The
only duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.
The only
easy day is yesterday.
The only
four letter word an agent needs to know is M-O-R-E.
The only
good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
The only important questions: What didn’t work? What
did you learn?
The only
irreparable mistake in business is to run out of cash. Almost any other mistake in business can be
remedied in one way or another. But when
you run out of cash, they take you out of the game. (Geneen)
The only
job in which you start at the top is digging a hole.
The only
justification of rebellion is success.
The only
law this fellow has broken is the law of averages.
The only
nonnegotiable principle here is success. Everything else is negotiable.
The only
one you get even with is yourself.
The only
people who want to die before they get old are those too young to know better.
The only
real asset we have is time.
The only
real boss in your life is the mirror.
The only
rule of thumb is to stick it in the other guy's eye before he sticks it in
yours.
The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics.
Everything else is a recommendation.
The only
source of knowledge is experience.
The only
thing I think any of us want is to last as long as we’re any good. And then not.
The only
thing I’m truly interested in for very long is the stories we tell each other.
The only
thing I want in life is a written apology from everyone I’ve ever met.
The only
thing more satisfying and powerful than fulfilling expectations is subverting
them.
The only
thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The
only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
The only
thing standing between me and greatness is me.
The only
thing that history teaches us is that history doesn't teach us anything.
The only
thing that looks good on me is you.
The
The only
thing you can truly control is your own effort.
The only
things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder,
friction and malperformance.
The only
thing that permits a man to live is the act.
A man engages in his life, defines his profile, and outside this
profile, he is nothing.
The only
time people don’t make mistakes is when they’re asleep.
The only
true happiness can come from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The only
way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show
them how to get it.
The only way out of something is
all the way through it.
The only
way to avoid pissing people off is to do nothing important
The only way to do great
work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't
settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. (Steve
Jobs)
The only
way to look at a politician is down.
The
only way to remain vital is to take chances.
The
opposite of community is calamity.
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of
happiness is boredom.
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s
indifference.
The
opposite of talking is listening.
The
opposite of talking is waiting.
The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable
product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what
everyone else is doing just a bit better.
The
outcome will always fall short of your expectations.
The
outfit doesn’t make the monk. (L’habit
ne fait pas le moine.)
The overlords of society want you smart enough to operate the
machinery, but no smarter.
The oxen
are slow, but the earth is patient.
The pace
of change will never again be as slow as it is today
The pace
of true innovation isn’t keeping up with the rate at which our problems are
growing.
The pain
always finds you.
The pain
goes away, but the wound stays forever.
The pain
of failure exceeded by far the joys of success.
The pain
of preparation is much less than the pain of failure and regret.
The paint
has aged now, and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for
me now. (Pentimento)
The
paintings are very beautiful. But that’s all.
The
palest ink is better than the best memory.
The
paradox of plenty.
The
passer always get a ride home.
The past: I don’t want to erase it or
regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
The past
changes with the present. The past is never dead.
It is not even the past.
The past, culled and curated as it must be,
always offers a more attractive artistic face, worn smooth by familiarity and
the caress of time.
The past
is gone for good. You can sit and mourn its departure or prepare for the
future.
The past
is past. The future unformed. There is only the moment.
The past
is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember or
pretend you remember.
The past
isn’t gone, it’s not even past.
The past
recedes away before our eyes while the future comes upon us from behind our
backs. You can't face the future, you
can only project from the past. You
can't forget the past; what else is there to know?
The path
hasn’t been written.
The path
of least resistance is rarely the path of wisdom.
The paths
of glory lead only to the grave.
The
penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
The
penumbra of a grief event casts everything in a golden light.
The people successful enough to attend these events are
generally not the sort of people who experience self-doubt.
The
people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who
do
The
people who are doing the drudgery are, as a rule, in the proper places.
The
people who change best and fastest are the ones who have no choice.
The
people who succeed and do not push on to a greater failure are the spiritual
middle-classers. (O’Neill)
The
people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and all the less
important ones just never go away.
The
people you manage will either emulate you or go against (attack) you.
The
perception of power is power.
The
perfect deal is one where both parties walk away feeling slightly screwed.
The
perfectly known future is a past.
The
person who controls the definition of a problem controls the solution.
The
person who does things that count usually doesn't stop to count them.
The person who forgives is far stronger than
the person who fights.
The
person who knows “how” will always have a job.
The person who knows “why” will always be his boss.
The piano
is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
The
pitcher will go to the well once too often.
The politician talks, and the donkey breaks wind.
The
potential to leverage what hasn’t happened yet.
The power
and the pride of craftsmanship.
The power
of forgetting should never be underestimated.
The power
of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.
The power
of prospective is what makes us wise.
The
powerful don’t have to conspire because they all think alike.
The
powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
The present always has precedence over the
past.
The present is becoming the future faster
than it is becoming the past.
The present is never our goal. The past and present are our means; the
future alone is our goal.
The price
of an education
The price
for doing things halfway is the same as for doing things right.
The price
of leadership is eternal paranoia.
The price
of progress is memory.
The
probabilities change when you’re committed.
The
problem is usually in the process.
The
problem isn't how little we care; the problem is how little we do about it.
The
problem with communication is the illusion that it’s been accomplished.
The
problem with evil clowns is that it’s the clownishness, not the evil, they soon
shed.
The problem
with market research is that people don't think how they feel, they don't say
what they think, and they don't do what they say.
The
problem with most companies is that they don’t know what business they’re in.
The
problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. (Thatcher)
The problem with the
gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
The process can quickly become a prison.
The
promise of connection turned into the reality of division.
The proof
of understanding is the ability to explain it.
The
prospect of losing was simply incompatible with living the rest of my life.
The psychic toll of goods that don’t endure is that one loses
faith the future will even come, and then one loses interest in it coming, for
little that we own or use or cherish seems likely to be there with us to meet
it.
The
purpose of art is not to replicate experience, it’s to help us make sense of
our experience and enrich our appreciation of life by enabling individual
creative expression.
The
purpose of drama is to reveal sources of pleasures and enjoyment in our own
emotional life.
The
purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be
compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived
well. (Emerson)
The
purpose of theater, like magic, like religion—those three harness mates - is to
inspire cleansing awe.
The quality
of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only
for himself, but for his family.
The quality of a leader is
reflected in the standards they set for themselves. (Ray Kroc)
The
quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his dedication to
excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The
quality of any collaborative creative endeavor tends to approach the level of
taste of whoever is in charge.
The
quality of any product or service is what the customer says it is.
The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can
they talk? but, Can they suffer?
The
question isn't how, but how many.
The
question isn’t who’s going to let us; it’s who’s going to stop us.
The
quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
The quickest way to lose a friend
is to lend them money.
The
quieter y
The race
doesn't always go to the swift or the battle to the strong. But that's the way to bet.
The race
is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running.
The rate
at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he
can tolerate.
The ratio
of puff to stuff.
The real
defining characteristic is education.
The guy who makes $1 million who never graduated from college watches TV
like other people who never graduated from college.
The real
path to greatness, it turns out, requires simplicity and diligence. It requires clarity, not instant
illumination.
The real
product of a service business is not so much what emerges at the end of the
line; it is the intangible feeling of being cared for.
The real
question is not whether machines think, but whether men do.
The real
secret of success is enthusiasm.
The real
secret to innovation is failing fast.
The real
test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself, but when
he plays the role destiny has for him. (Havel)
The real
trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
The reason God created the Earth in 6 days was because he
didn’t have legacy systems and millions of customers.
The
reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place
isn’t there the second time.
The
reason things are seldom as they seem is that we usually refuse to see them as
they are.
The
reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for
ourselves.
The reason why worry
kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The rebar
of humanity: teen-agers
The
recent spells of market euphoria and market despair, at their most extreme,
have been illusions, with little relation to the real breadth of technological
change.
The rest is huckstory.
The rest
is silence.
The rest
isn’t history. It’s history in the making.
The
reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
The reward
of suffering is experience.
The
rewards of genius go to society. The
price of being a genius is paid by the genius alone.
The
richest place in the world is the graveyard.
The right
answer is the best answer.
The wrong
answer is second-best.
No answer
is the worst.
The right
man is the one who seizes the moment.
The right
shoes can change your life.
The right
time is always right now
The right
you have is the right you take.
The risk
of charm without mission.
The risk
of failure is never allowed to call into question the essential nature of the
enterprise.
The risks that leave us most vulnerable
are those we fail to foresee.
The road
is better than the inn.
The road
of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (Blake)
The road
to success is always under construction.
The road to success is paved with
disappointment and disillusionment. If you haven't lost, you haven't won.
The road
to success is paved with mistakes well-handled.
The road
you don’t travel is always smoother.
The
roll-on deodorant was modeled after the ballpoint pen.
The roots
of a tree cast no shadow.
The rule
in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't
have both.
The rule
of holes: If you are in one, stop
digging.
The
ruthless efficiency of their features and their personalities.
The sad
truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
The sad
truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be
good or evil. (Hannah A)
The
saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
The same choice, between understanding and
sweet nostalgia, between the splinters and thorns of history and a smooth,
thin, polished veneer.
The same
hammer that breaks glass forges steel.
The sand
in the Vaseline.
The
scandal isn’t what’s illegal; the scandal is what’s legal
The
Scarcest Resource of All is Time – Time or Productivity
The
scars we carry remain, but the pain slips away
The
science of today is the technology of tomorrow. (Edward Teller)
The search for knowledge is not nourished by
certainty: it is nourished by a radical absence of certainty. Carlo Rovelli
The
search for perfection is all very well but looking for heaven makes living here
hell. (Sting)
The
search for someone to blame is always successful.
The
second barrel, as the lawyers say, was fatal.
The
secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The
secret of making money in business: know
something nobody else knows.(Onassis)
The
secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are
undecided.
The
secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid
being wrong. The secret is to being willing to be wrong.
The
secret to happiness is low expectations.
The
secret to overcoming any challenge lies in finding the alignment of
self-interests.
The Senate styles itself as a club, but the
House is more like an airport lounge, everyone impatiently watching the clock
and the departures board and eying the same skimpy tray of desserts.
The
“share the scraps” economy.
The shell
must break before the bird can fly.
The ship
is leaving the rats.
The shoes
are original. It’s just the brands that are fake.
The
shrimp that falls asleep is swept away by the current.
The
silence of the cave often hides the breathing of the bear.
The
simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
The
simplest lie is the best lie.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that
it has taken place.
The
sinister thing about writing is that it starts off seeming so easy and ends up
being so hard.
The
sleepless shall inherit the earth.
The
smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. (Aesop)
The smart
can trump the bold.
The
smartest thing you can know is when it’s over.
The
smoothest path is full of stones.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has
to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions;
they cease to be mind. (Nietzsche)
The snow
is heaviest while it melts.
The
soft bigotry of low expectations.
The
solution needed to be Chekhovian (with everybody a little disappointed) rather
than Shakespearean (with bodies littering the floor).
The
songs we hear as children end up being a lot like our fathers; we go on hearing
them in our heads even when they’re not around.
The sooner you fall
behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
The sound
that your voice makes when the words come from your heart rather than your
head.
The
Spartans are not wont to ask how many the enemy are, but where they are.
The
speech we hear is an indication of that which we don’t hear.
The speed
of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The spigot of retribution.
The spirit of a revolution can never be
sustained because overthrowing a system always means replacing it with a new
one.
The
squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease.
Sometimes it gets replaced.
The stakes can be high and the temperatures in the room
can be low. (Collaboration)
The stamp of a singular sensibility
The
stench of Ed's desperation.
The
stench of yesterday.
The
sternest purpose lurks behind the greatest frivolity.
The still
point in a turning world.
The stock
doesn’t know you own it.
The Stone
Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It ended because we invented
better tools.
The stories
we can’t look away from are often those that validate our anxiety and
depression, that confirm our suspicion that other people are awful.
The story
has been told. If it is bad, it was my fault, because I am the storyteller. But
if it was good, it belongs to everybody.
The story
of how they got from tit to tat.
The streets is a short stop. Either you’re
slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.
The
strength of a college can be measured by the number of subjects it refuses to
teach.
The
strength
The
strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. (Isben)
The
strongest person in the world is the man who can stand alone.
The struggle of man against power is the
struggle of memory against forgetting.
The
substance of childhood can’t withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
The sum
of your actions determines who you are.
The sum
total of a lot of little things isn’t little.
The sun
is but a morning star. (Thoreau)
The sun
pours down like honey. (James Taylor -
Suzanne)
The sunshine of joy.
The
superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will
sell.
The
superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even
after we understand it.
The
system should fit people, not the other way around.
The
tallest guy in a tribe of dwarfs.
The
task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody
has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
The task
of each generation is to build a road for the next.
The task
of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not
been.
The
teachers know that however much they have learned in the past, today is a
different day and you cannot ride yesterday’s horse.
The tears
of strangers are only water.
The temptation to quiet the jangle and resolve the complications
of our maddening world by latching onto one answer, lining up behind one
leader, taking the oath of one tribe and then reveling in its smug and
censorious rightness.
The
temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
The test
of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the
mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. (F.
Scott Fitzgerald)
The thief
is no danger to the beggars.
The thing
about doing something terrible is you hardly ever remember it.
The thing
that made our reconciliation so successful was that we never tried to clear up
what had gone so wrong. We just let it
go.
The thing
you have to be prepared for is that other people don’t always dream your dream.
The
things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
The
things that made me different are the things that made me.
The
things we fear we bring to pass.
The
things we remember best are those best forgotten.
The
things we want, we can do them or not do them, but we can't hide them.
The
things which hurt, instruct.
The things you loved when you were young will never be able to
make you young again.
The “this
is a democracy and every voice is vital” approach runs counter to making good
work.
The
“this” of “that”
The
thought of suicide is a great comforter. Many a man has spent a sleepless night
with it. (Nietzsche)
The three
grand essentials of happiness are:
Something to do; someone to love, and something to hope for.
The time
before time began to tell.
The time lost in not making a decision can
never be retrieved.
The time
to eat appetizers is when they’re handing them out. (raise money)
The time
to make up your mind about people is never. (Tracy Lord)
The time
to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The time
to take the tarts is when they’re being passed.
The
tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill.
The
tongue always returns to the sore tooth.
The
toughest choices are made with the heart.
The
tragedy of life is what dies within a man while he still lives.
The
transmission of woes is a one-way street, from child to mother. A good mother
doesn’t burden her children with her pain. She waits until it becomes so heavy,
it either breaks her or kills her, whichever comes first.
The trees
that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
The trick
is not to solve a problem once, but how to solve it over and over again.
The trick is not minding that it hurts.
The trick
on a movie is to take something that’s very sophisticated and reduce it to
something very simple.
The
tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
The
triumph will be remembered long after the pain is forgotten.
The
triumph over anything is a matter of organization.
The
trouble is, you think you have the time
The
trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates
how difficult it was.
The
trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The
trouble with resisting temptation is that it may never come again.
The
trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it.
The
trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
The
trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the intelligent are full
of doubt.
The true
competition is anything that engages you in your non-sleeping hours.
The true
cost of following your dreams isn’t what you sacrifice when you chase them. It’s
what you lose when you don’t.
The true
entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer
The true
maturity of a man is the ability to recapture the intensity one had as a child
at play.
The true
test of a Chief Executive’s ability is the willingness to endlessly repeat
himself.
The true
test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the
same time.
The true test of a man’s
character is what he does when no one is watching.
The
truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
The
truest test of gold is fire.
The truth
about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
The truth is everyone is going to hurt
you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. (Marley)
The truth
is everyone is winging it.
The truth
is I don't know anyone who got to the top without hard work. It will not always get you to the top, but it
should get you pretty close.
The truth
is messy, incoherent, aimless, boring, absurd.
The truth does not make a good story; that’s why we have art.
The truth
is rarely pure, and never simple.
The truth
is stranger than fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly
regular, maybe even exponential, basis.
The truth
is that once you get old, you stop being polite and start being honest.
The truth
only hurts when you don't tell it.
The tug
is the drug. (Fishing)
The
Turkey Parable – Prince & Turkey & Sage
The two
things people want more than sex or money are recognition and praise.
The
tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
The unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable. (Wilde)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools.
The
ultimate measure of a man or woman is not where they stand in moments of
comfort or convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and
controversy.
The
ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
The
unattainable is invariably attractive.
The
unexamined life is not worth living. The
unlived life is not worth examining.
The union
is like herpes. It doesn’t kill you, but it’s unpleasant and inconvenient, and
it stops a lot of people from becoming your lover.
The union of boredom and anonymity is
dangerous. Especially at the intersection of addiction and envy.
The
United States of Amnesia.
The
universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
The
universe isn’t asking us to do something, it’s asking us to be something.
The unmerited entitlement of a
secondary British royal and the self-pitying exhibitionism of a grifting
California arriviste.
The
unpalatable truth is that pe
The
upside of painful knowledge is much greater than the cold comfort of blissful
ignorance.
The value
of a getaway spot depends on what is being gotten away from.
The value
of any network increases in proportion to the square of the number of people
using it.
The value
of true modesty or humility is hard to sustain in an attention economy.
The
velocity of doing wasn’t fast enough.
The very
substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
The vibe was like “hack week, but with a gun to your head.
The violinist
is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency—half tiger,
half poet.
The
virtue of selfishness.
The virtues of men are of more
consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
The
vulgar falsehoods of the cinema.
The way I
see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The way
people speak is more important than what they say.
The way
to do good science is to be incredibly critical without being depressed.
The way
to get started is to quit talking and start doing. (Walt Disney)
The way
to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining it than about deserving
it.
The way
to solve the problem you see in life is to live in a way that makes the problem
disappear.
The way
we do anything is the way we do everything.
The way
you are is the way you have to be.
The way y
The
wealthy have few friends.
The
weather is here, wish you were beautiful.
The white
cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word
“free” to a note so high nobody can reach it. (Angels in America)
The whole
art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young
minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. (Anatole France)
The whole
loneliness of all the different romances gone wrong.
The whole
of science is no more than a refinement of every day thinking.
The whole secret of politics is knowing who hates who.
The whole
world in your pants.
The
will-to-power is thus an expression of insecurity even when it has achieved
ends which, from the perspective of an ordinary mortal, would seem to guarantee
complete security.
The will
to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
The
willingness to be lucky.
The
willingness to be violent is a force multiplier.
The
willingness to learn is related to the “growth
mind-set” — the
belief that your abilities are not fixed but can improve.
The
winner is not determined by the skill of the combatant as much as by the
terrain. Bear could pull alligator out
of swamp. Instead, they jumped into the
swamp.
The wolf
climbing the hill is always hungrier than the wolf on top of the hill.
The woods are lovely,
dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.
The work
goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never
die.
The world
bats last.
The
world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But
those that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle
and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these, you can be sure it
will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
The world
does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
The world
doesn’t owe you a living.
The world
has changed in that ease of access and convenience are also luxuries.
The world
is full of fictional characters looking for their stories.
The world
is full of questions/Some are answered, some are not/ The only faith you’re
keepin’/Is the faith that you still got.
The world is full of
willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The world
is moved, not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Frank
C. R
The world
is not that small, it’s just too crowded.
The world isn’t yours for the taking, but for the trying.
The world
is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue
rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power.
The world
is run by those who show up.
The world
is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can’t be done is
interrupted by the person who is doing it.
The world
is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more
extravagant and bright.
The
world isn't what it is, it's what we make of it.
The world offers you comfort.
But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
The world will little note, nor long remember
what we say here
The
world’s best speedboat captain isn’t able to pilot an oil tanker.
The world’s greatest lie: that at a certain point in our lives, we
lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by
fate.
The worm
was punished for early rising.
The worst day of your life should not define
your life.
The worst
evaluator of talent is a player trying to evaluate himself.
The worst
mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
The worst
mistakes in business are made in good times, not bad times.
The worst
they can do is call you “pisher.”
The worst thing about new books
is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
The worst
thing you can do on stage is to think about what you are doing.
The worst
times to try to build a relationship are when you need something or are trying
to sell someone something.
The worst
your enemies can do is kill you, The worst your friends can do is betray you.
Fear only the indifferent, because at their silent consent, treachery and death
flourish.
The worst
way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have
them.
The worst
work is always done with the best intentions.
The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest.
You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to
turn them down." - T.S. Elliot
The years
teach much which the days never know.
The young
man knows the rules, the old man knows the exceptions.
The young
man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Their cravenness is at the bottom of a bottomless well.
Their
eyes were too old for their young bodies.
Their follies make them weak,
and their weakness leads them to folly.
Their
minds weren’t so much closed books as empty pages.
Theirs is a chorus of hope that drowns out the spurious attacks
of a disreputable man and his sycophants.
Then the
rains start to fall, making fools of us all.
Theoretical customers don’t judge
harshly. Paying customers do. Tough customers are essential to the whole
process.
Theory is
good, but it doesn't prevent things from happening.
Therapy
leads to self-knowledge, religion offers grace, and motivation validates
success.
There
ain't no answer. There ain't going to be
any answer. There never has been an
answer. That's the answer.
There
always seems to come a moment where it’s just not working.
There
are always going to be winners and losers, and if you’re gonna stick around,
you have to be both.
There
are always plenty of people to tell you why a good idea won't work.
There are
always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely, if they
will only recognize and seize them.
There are
always shiny things. A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because
shiny doesn’t last. You want your customers to value your service.
There are
bridges you crossed which you didn’t know you crossed until you’ve crossed
them.
There are
clubs you can't belong to.
Neighborhoods
you can't live in.
Schools
you can't get into.
But the
roads are always open.
There are
decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.
(Lenin)
There are evils done by parents that obliterate
relationships and leave marks that are hard to overcome.
There are
far more reasons to lie than to tell the truth.
There are
few plateaus in life – you’re either going up or down.
There are
free, imprudent spirits who would like to deny that at bottom they are broken,
incurable hearts.
There are memories that will always make me
lonesome but will never make me sad.
There are moments in our lives when the sense that our
friend is near is all that we can bear. Our wounds smart under the consoling
words that only reveal the depths of pain.
There are
no accidents.
There are
no answers, just stories.
There
are no atheists in foxholes.
There are
no called strikes in the ball game of investing.
There are
no coincidences – only markers along the path that let us know we’re going in
the right direction.
There are
no dumb customers.
There are
no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.
There are
no fortunes to be told, although, because I love you more than I can say. If I could tell you I would let you know.
There are no gains, without pain. (Ben
Franklin)
There are no heroes of action — only heroes of
renunciation and suffering. (Schweitzer)
There are
no line items that gauge the real engines of prosperity: vision, passion and
commitment.
There are
no modest revolutions.
There are
no new customers. You need to persuade existing customers to buy more.
There are
no office hours for leaders.
There are no options on the table that don’t
come with profound costs: The question is which is least bad.
There are
no original liars.
There are
no pockets in a shroud.
There are
no rules. We are trying to accomplish something. (Edison)
There are
no shortcuts. No one can take the steps
for you. You make it or you don't.
There are
no shortcuts to any place worth going.
There are
no short-term solutions to long-term problems.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
There are
no strike twos in a niche business.
There are
no stupid people. There are only
uninterested people.
There are
no ugly women, only lazy ones.
There are
no victims in show business. Everybody
in show business deserves each other.
There are
no winners, only survivors.
There are
obvious and glaring dangers in a worldview that measures fairness by equality
of outcome rather than opportunity.
There are
old climbers and there are bold climbers, but there are no old, bold climbers.
There are
only two kinds of people who dance with elephants - the quick and the dead.
There are people who simply don’t have that
internal sense of limitation that normal people have.
There are
some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.
There are
some roads not to follow; some troops not to strike; some cities not to
assault; and some ground which should not be contested.
There are
tears at the heart of things.
There are
things I regret which I think are as big as anything he might regret. I’ve just
been able to have other things that soften the blow.
There are
things known and things unknown; and in between are the doors.
There are
three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately,
no one knows what they are.
There are
times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.
There are
times when you have to do harder.
There are
toys for all ages.
There are
tricks in every trade.
There are
truths which are not for all men, nor for all occasions.
There are
truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
There are two kinds
of teachers: the kind that fills you with so much quail shot that you can’t
move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the
skies.
There are two little words we don’t pay enough attention to:
over and next. When something is over, it is over, and we are on to next.
(Norman Lear)
There are
two reasons why a man does anything. There’s
a good reason and there’s the real reason.
There
are two sources of light, the candle, and the mirror that reflects it.
There are
two things a real man loves - danger and play; and he loves women because
they are
the most dangerous of playthings.
There are
two tragedies in life. One is to lose
your heart’s desire. The other is to
gain it.
There are
two types of people in the world - gunslingers and targets.
There are
two ways of being creative. One can sing
and dance. Or one can create an
environment in which singers and dancers can flourish.
There are weeks where decades happen.
(Lenin)
There are
worse things than being wrong.
There
aren’t two sides to a lie.
There can
be happiness and completeness in life, but never satisfaction.
There can be no hesitation in the exercise of
political power. If you shoot a bear, you have to kill it.
There can
be no transformation of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without
emotion.
There go the people. I must follow them, for I
am their leader.
There has
been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing
about.
There has
rarely been a larger gap between a mob’s viciousness and its target’s virtue.
(Fauci)
There is
a big difference between information and communication.
There
is a difference between a reader and a market.
There is
a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
If you get away with it, you are brave. If you
don't,
you are stupid.
There is
a melancholy gulf over the holidays between those who have someplace to go, and
those who do not.
There is
a point at which methods devour themselves.
There is
a tendency to mistake data for wisdom, just as there has always been a tendency
to confuse logic with values, intelligence with insight. Unobstructed access to facts can produce
unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what
they mean and where they lead.
There is
a tide in the affairs of men, when, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune;
omitted,
all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a
full sea
are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our
ventures.
There is
a time for departing even when there’s no certain place to go. (Tennessee Williams)
There is
a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
There is a wisdom of the head and a wisdom of the heart. (Dickens)
There is
absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
There is
always a better way.
There is
always going to be another turn of the screwdriver.
There is,
in fact, no such thing as art for art’s sake. (Mao Zedong) You’re always
selling something.
There is
an infinite demand for the unavailable.
There is
at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change
dramatically to rise to the next performance level. Miss the moment, and you start to decline.
There is
life without love. It is not worth a
bent penny, or a scuffed shoe.
There is more
in us than we know. If we can be made to
see it, perhaps, for the rest of ourselves, we will be unwilling to settle for
less.
There is more room in a broken heart. (Carly
Simon)
There is
more to life than increasing its speed.
There is never,
really, any release from the consequences of adversity until you decide to do
something
about them.
There is no
agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
There is no
armor against fate.
There is no bond like blood, but there is no
compound as volatile either.
There is no
bread without leavening.
There is
no contradiction between a soft heart and a hard head.
There is
no data point for “cooler.”
There is
no fate but what you make.
There is
no fight that you cannot lose, no matter how disadvantaged your opponent.
There is
no finish line.
There is
no fixed pie when it comes to building.
There is
no fool like an old fool.
There is
no greater agony than bearing an untold story within you. Maya Angelou
There is
no honest way to describe the edge because the only people who really know
where it is are the ones who have gone over. (Hunter Thompson)
There is
no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.
There is
no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
There is
no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who
gets the
credit.
There is
no margin in making or having enemies.
There is
no one, no matter their size, shape or accent, who doesn’t turn someone else
on, somewhere, somehow.
There is
no place for failure, except as a temporary setback, a prelude to triumph.
There is
no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
There is
no reason for me not to be grateful for what he has left behind for me.
There is
no reason goodness cannot triumph over evil, so long as the angels are as
organized as the mafia.
There is
no shame in not knowing. The shame lies
in not finding out.
There
is no straight line to a dream.
There is
no substitute for pure blind luck.
There is
no such thing as a bad doughnut.
There is
no such thing as an accidental billionaire.
There is
no such thing as a free lunch.
There is
no such thing as a “good” excuse.
There
is no such thing as a little bit of adultery.
There is
no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
There is
no such thing as truth in art. There are
only opinions.
There is
no truth except the truth you create for yourself.
There is
no vaccine against change.
There is
no way to succeed or fail in this work.
There are only consequences.
There is nobody more
dangerous than one who has been humiliated.
There’s
n
There is nothing
free except the grace of God.
There is
nothing heroic in failing alone.
There is
nothing like a dream to create the future.
There
is nothing more beautiful than memory.
There is
nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more
dangerous
to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.
There is
nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain
in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of
things.
There is
nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action. (Goethe)
There is
nothing that time cannot heal.
There is
only love (a natural emotion) and fear (an invention of our minds) and each day
we choose between them and thereby determine the kind of day we have and how we
will perceive the world.
There is
only one success . . . to be able to spend your life in your own way.
There is only one thing more powerful than all
the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor
Hugo
There is
only the journey to savor. The end is
the same end for all of us.
There is
somebody wiser than any of us . . . and that is all of us.
There is
something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
There is
something inside Bonnie that is always screaming next.
There is
this person who pushes himself to the end, demanding the impossible, and even
achieving it. It’s like a constant
internal tyranny. You can never stop. There is no celebration.
There is
winning and there is misery. There is
nothing else.
There
isn’t anything that a good order wouldn’t cure.
There
lurks, perhaps, in every human heart, a desire of distinction, which inclines
every man to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given himself something
peculiar to himself.
There may
come a day when this too will be a good memory.
There
must be more to life than having everything.
There
must be self-deception in order to produce a great effect. (Nietzsche)
There never was any
heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.
There was
a grace we had when we started. We
thought you had to be accountable.
There was no day but today to do it.
There was no miraculous breakthrough that
afternoon, unless it was the ordinary miracle that comes with any attempt to
create something.
There was
only time for now.
There was
something missing, but I never used to wonder why.
There
were moments of unaccountable wrongness, as if a kazoo had intruded into a
string quartet.
There
will be sleeping enough in the grave.
There
will be times in your life when your back is up against the wall. Plant your feet.
Stand
firm. Make a point of who you are. Then-kick some ass.
There
will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
There is
no knowledge that is not power.
There is
no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living. (Mandela)
There is
no Planet B.
There is
no such thing as a non-working mother.
There
is nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant
to do. It’s like falling in love.
There is only one thing that makes a dream
impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
There is only one way to learn. It’s through action.
There
is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
There're
some insults that can never be excused.
There’s a
chill of inevitability as he realizes how little room death leaves for
variation.
There’s a comfort in a familiar place.
There’s a
crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. (L. Cohen)
There’s a
fine line between a single and a jingle.
There’s a
fine line between being a bitch and a bimbo. (Anna)
There’s a
fine line between praying and whining.
There’s a
fine line between stupid and clever.
There's a
hole in my heart that no one else can fill - why would I want them to?
There’s a
lag between innovation and the appreciation (apprehension) of its consequences
There’s a
lot of smart people out there who aren’t people smart.
There's a
million nice guys; give me someone who can hit.
There’s a
right way to do anything.
There’s a time to be heartbroken and a time to
dance.
There’s a
truth in action that words sometimes belie.
There’s
always a suspicion of anybody who works well in many disciplines.
There's
always another way out of the box. But
even if you built the box, you may not know the best way out.
There’s
always gonna be another mountain. I’m always gonna want to make it move.
There’s always more work, but you only have one family.
There’s
always room at the top.
There’s
always work for entrepreneurs.
There's always
the question of whether history makes the man or the man makes history.
There's
always tomorrow. Start over again. The only one sure thing is change. Things will never be the same.
There’s
an infinite demand for the unavailable.
There's
got to be a morning after.
There’s
hope, but not for us. (Kafka)
There’s
just this obliviousness to anything other than the goal at hand.
There’s
never just one cockroach.
There’s
no cure for being human.
There’s
no elevator to success; you have to take the stairs.
There’s
no learning curve for people who are in war or in startups.
There’s
nepotism in show business, but not on the performing side – especially comedy.
You can’t make an audience laugh for your kid.
There’s
no dream she wouldn’t reach for. And no fall she wouldn’t take. (Walter Matthau
about Lucy)
There’s
no dream that’s too big.
There’s
no education in the second kick of a mule.
There’s no grace in failing. Only
humility. (Jim Belushi)
There’s
no greater disgrace than to be a thing of the past.
There's
no heavier burden than a great potential.
There’s
no glory in a grind that grinds you down. (Eve Ewing)
There's
no "I" in team.
There’s no line at the bank for being ahead of your time.
There’s no point in dying on a small cross.
There’s no point in taking stock unless it’s unsparing
There’s
no religion around Apple anymore.
There’s
no religion that doesn’t have forgiveness. (Geffen)
There’s
no revenge as complete as forgiveness.
There’s
no right price for the wrong product.
There’s
no school for cool.
There's
no substitute for excellence - not even success. Success is tricky, perishable and often
outside our control. Excellence is
dependable, lasting largely within our own control and its pursuit, in and for
itself, is the best foundation for a business and a life.
There's
no substitute for fat tires.
There's
no such thing as a free kick. It's just
a question of who pays.
There’s
no such thing as a good deal with a bad guy.
There's
no such thing as in-between.
There’s
no such thing as living happily ever after.
So, you must construct for yourself a life that makes sense.
There's
no such thing as paranoia, it's always worse than you think.
There’s
no use getting into a pissing contest with a skunk.
There’s
not enough deodorant for this conversation.
There's
nothing a girl in sneakers can’t do.
There’s
nothing I’m more afraid of than scared people.
There’s
nothing like walking on land for a day if you are a fish.
There’s nothing more painful than
being a parent.
There’s
nothing more powerful than silence, than knowing what you know and keeping it
to yourself.
There's
nothing more vulnerable than entrenched success.
There’s
nothing symmetrical about surprises in business: They are almost always unpleasant.
There’s
nothing that gets you interested in money like having some of it.
There’s nothing worse
than feeling like you’re being lectured when you were promised a party.
There's one advantage to being 102, there's no
peer pressure." - Dennis Wolfberg
There’s
only now – there’s only here. (from RENT)
There's
plenty of room at the top, but not enough to sit down.
There’s
sainted glory this day in the Lonesome West.
There’s small choice in rotten apples.
There’s
so much power in just showing up.
“There’s
something about the smearing of colored dirt on a flat surface and denying the
flatness through the illusion of depth that retains its original magic from the
days of the cave painters, and which can never be denied.”
There’s
the past and there’s the story we tell about it.
There’s
this general feeling of profundity, but it never turns into anything
specifically interesting.
There's
what you want and what's good for you.
There are days when spelling Tuesday correctly simply
doesn't count.
There are
multiple paths to “yes”.
There are
parts of the truth that you just cannot make up.
There are
two kinds of people in Washington: those who can count, and those who lose.
There are two simple principles for a happy life: 1. Use things,
not people. 2. Love people, not things.
There are
two theories of arguing with a woman – neither one works.
There
aren’t any good old days.
There is
a time when panic is the appropriate response.
There
is no compression algorithm for experience.
There is
no elegant way to lose a war.
There is
no elevator to success; you have to take the stairs.
There is
no future because no one can make any plans.
There is
no growth without loss, and no art without longing.
There is
no middle ground between an arsonist and a firefighter.
There is
no such thing as a minor lapse in integrity.
There’s
no mystery. It’s work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected,
uncontrolled, inexplicable, even magical. The work prepares you for the moment.
There is no
permission structure for entrepreneurialism.
There is
no security on this Earth. There is only opportunity. (MacArthur)
There
is no straight line to a dream.
There is
no substitute for victory.
There is
no wealth but life.
There is
not a right way to do a wrong thing.
There
is a difference between fasting and starving.
Low stakes
There
is never just one cockroach.
There is just no such
thing as clean energy.
There
is no such thing as getting over you until there’s something else to hold on
to.
There
was no reason to believe that creativity was a renewable resource.
These
are some of the happiest days I’ve ever ignored.
These
people love to ask what they can do, they never ask what have they done.
These objects began as vessels of meaning and tokens of taste, but
their acquisition becomes a kind of compulsion, emptied of its original
passion.
These two
men are as different as chalk and cheese.
They
always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
(Warhol)
They are creating a power that they do not
understand at a pace they often cannot believe.
They are
creatures of sublime self-delusion, their unshakable vanity permanently at odds
with both their circumstances and the personalities they reveal. They are
forever caught in the act of demonstrating their natures, without prologue or
outcome.
They are
not dismissive; they are focused.
They are
not mean-spirited; they are intent on the success of their ideas
They’re shamelessness made flesh.
They
aren’t the gods you made them into, but they aren’t the whale turds they’re
being portrayed as now either.
They
can’t find us if they’re not looking for us.
These
people are stars for a reason.
These
times, like all times, are very good ones, if we but know what to do with them.
These
women dealt in surfaces, but that doesn’t mean they lacked depth.
They are
an exquisite mess, but theirs is a deeply rich joy.
They are
called brokers because they make you broker.
They are either in the boat with the lunatics or
out here on the shore with the cucks.
They are people who have learned nothing and forgotten
nothing.
They are
the publisher, not the postman.
They are trees, which live and die. Yet the forest is
immortal.
They
bit their tongues until they lost the ability to speak.
They call
you stubborn when you fail, but persistent when you succeed.
They can
because they think they can. (Possunt quia posse videntur.)
They can
roll out the red carpet or roll out the red tape, but they roll out the red
tape at their peril because the horse has already left the barn.
They
can roll out the red tape, or they can roll out the red carpet, and they roll
out the red tape at their peril, because the genie’s left the bottle.
They
could make the thing charming, and that is always a million times more
important than making it true.
They
could not bring themselves at the moment of crisis to surrender their memories
and alter the antique patterns of their lives.
They deserve more than I can ever give them, and yet they will
never ask for more than me.
They did
nothing and they did it very well.
They died
hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and
they stunk. And I loved them.They do not
imagine life as an effort to live up to abstract ideals like justice, equality,
fairness, reasonableness, etc., but as a struggle to survive.
They do
tricks so ancient and so bad that they must think we were all born
yesterday. But then, compared to them,
we pretty much were.
They
don’t have control of the speed I drive, but they do have control of my heart.
They
don't remember their lies. How can you
expect them to remember their promises?
They
don’t understand that that’s life’s way
They
either swell or they grow (Leaders).
They
fought what they found foolish or irrelevant, and consequently did not survive
to do what they considered vital.
They gave
you life, but they didn't give you the manual.
They have lost an empire but not yet found a
role.
They have
no psychology: they act according to
their natures without introspection or the possibility of change. They are hardwired by the myths that contain
them.
They have
to pay you, but they don’t have to thank you.
They have to win the endorsement of a crowd in an
echo chamber having a conversation that the rest of the country thinks is too
nasty or weird to join.
They helpfully illustrate the stakes of
sacrificing integrity, relationships, and the public interest to attain one’s
own selfish goals.
They interpret Trump’s deviance as defiance.
They
liken the need for personal glory to cigarette addiction: a habit that feels
life-sustaining even as it kills you.
They lived at the ends of their nerves and at
the top of their lungs.
They
reach for their moment and try to make an honest stand, but they wind up
wounded…not even dead…tonight…in…jungle land.
They said
“yes” with their words, but “no” with their work.
They say
love conquers all…you can’t start it like a car, you can’t stop it with a gun.
They say
rulers make bad lovers.
They say women, they will come, and they will go / When the rain
washes you clean, you'll know.
They say
you can't do it, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
They see
it, but they don’t get it. (Peoria)
They should
pretend to work somewhere else.
They showed up, they shared, and they cared.
They sicken of the calm, who knew
the storm.
They spend their time mostly looking
forward to the past.
They tell you that you will love your kids, but never mention
that you will fall in love with them.
They that
sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
They
tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.
They turned the dial up just perfectly in terms of
responsiveness, affection, and presence.
They want
to do “something”; they just don’t want to do what’s necessary.
They were
careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back
into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them
together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. (Gatsby)
They were
simple without being simplistic and sophisticated without being obscure.
They were
singing the songs, not writing the music.
They were
undertakers, not caretakers.
They weren’t accepted, they were expected
– to learn, to grow, and to become what they were capable of becoming and not
to settle for anything less than the best they could be.
They will never
forget you until somebody new comes along.
They would not find
me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.
They
would rather argue with the sun than agree with the Pope.
They
would rather die than die of embarrassment.
They'll
have paperless toilets before there's a paperless society.
They’re
all able to summon their best at the moments when they most need to.
They're
all whores. If you're going to be with
one - it might as well be the most expensive.
They’re
discrete and yet each builds on the last and you just ache with the mounting
intensity of it
They’re
like dishwashers. They’re okay, but you
don’t fall in love with them.
They’re
like race car drivers – they’re only as good as what they’re riding.
They’re
only puttin’ in a nickel, but they want a dollar song.
They’re
so inbred in Hollywood, it’s a wonder their kids have teeth.
Things
are hopeless, but not serious.
Things
are never as good as they seem or as bad as they appear.
Things do
not change; we change.
Things
don’t get easier. What happens is that you learn to handle hard stuff better.
Things
fall apart; the centre cannot hold. (Yeats)
Things
handled evenly, with measure, with care.
Things
may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Things
should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Things
that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
Things
turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
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Think
like a strategist, act like an animal.
Think not
of the harvest while planting; plant well and the harvest will take care of
itself.
Think of criticism
as faith in your potential.
Think of your life as a rainbow arcing across the horizon of
this world. You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear.
Think the
unthinkable.
Think
twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
Think
where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such
friends. (Yates)
Think
wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Thinking
is more interesting than knowing, but not so interesting as looking.
Thinking
is what gets you caught from behind.
Thinking isn’t
agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
Thinking
small is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This
birthday card is from both of us. In
much the same way that we both gave birth to the children.
This effort was as pointless as serving tea to a corpse.
This has
as much to do with gender as mustard does with ice cream.
This here
progress, it keeps on.
This house is haunted and the ride gets rough / You've got to
learn to live with what you can't rise above.
This
incandescent truth will always guide our actions.
This is a
time to be rationally reckless. It’s a
time to build a brand. It is really a
land-grab time.
This is an
unfair thing about war. Victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.
(Tacitus)
This is
how most friendships die, not in pyrotechnics, but in a quiet, gray
dissolve.
This is
love ... isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more
than anything? More even, than you love his presence?
This is
one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
This is
not your party. This is your problem.
This is
the business we have chosen.
This is
the
This
isn’t quite the banality of evil; it’s just the cheapness of avarice.
This is
no dress rehearsal. You've got one life,
so get on with it and try to be
remarkable.
This is
not a rehearsal. This is it.
This is
not the end, nor even the beginning of the end.
But it is the end of the beginning.
This is
the business we’ve chosen.
This
is the ideology of vandalism in the true sense of the word—the Vandals sacked
Rome. It is the ideology of nihilism. It knows nothing of how to build. It
knows only how to tear down and to destroy.
This life
isn’t bad for a first draft.
This loss
of interest, hair and enterprise.
This may
be heaven, but it's n
This
perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything
having very recently changed.
This place makes everyone a gambler.
This
place of work and wonder we call the Tinker Lab.
This shit
doesn’t sell itself.
This
situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on
somebody’s part. (Animal House)
This
taught me a lesson, but I’m not sure what it was.
This
thing we all hold in common.
This time
like all times is a great time as long as we know what to do with it.
This was more a case of a ‘bank-run by idiots’
rather than a ‘bank run by idiots’.
Those are
my principles. If you don’t like them, I
have others.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall
there.
Those
bold enough to advance before the age they live in must learn to brave censure.
Those
exalted moments between the promise and the prize.
Those on
top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
Those
relationships that don’t get better, get worse.
Those who
apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things.
Those
who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We
cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to
make the attempt.
Those who
can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)
Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.
Those who
cannot wait, never win.
Those who
can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
Those who
don’t believe in magic will never find it. (Roald Dahl)
Those who
do not move, do not notice their chains.
(Rosa Luxemburg)
Those who
foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
Those who
ignore the future, and live only in the present, will remain forever in
the past.
Those who
lack courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Those who
live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Those who
love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. (MLK)
Those who
love you sometimes make you cry.
Those who
mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Those who
pull the oars don't have time to rock the boat.
Those who question whether the glass is half full or half
empty miss the point. The glass is refillable.
Those who
say don't know, and those who know don't say.
Those who
say it can't be done are being passed by those doing it.
Those who
say it can’t be done, shouldn’t interrupt those who are doing it.
Those who
stay will be champions.
Those who
suffer in silence make the most noise.
Those who
tell the stories rule the world.
Those
who try to live by the crystal ball tend to eat a lot of broken glass.
Those who
will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest
innovator.
Those would have been baubles floating in befouled waters.
Thou must
gather thine own sunshine.
Thou
shalt not whine.
Though
passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. (Lincoln)
Though
the heavens fall, let justice be done. Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum.
Though
the stock market functions as a voting machine in the short run, it acts as a
weighing machine in the long run.
Though
you’re still with me, I’ve been alone all along.
Thought,
not money, is the real business capital.
Three
choices in life: Give up, give in, or give it all you’ve got.
Three
factors in job satisfaction: career, community and cause.
Three
findings: (1) social connection motivates; (2) teaching teaches the teacher;
and (3) instant feedback improves
learning.
Three may
keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Three principles: doing fewer things, working at a natural pace, and obsessing over quality. (Slow
Productivity)
Three rules for
a career: 1. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2. Don’t work for
anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3. Work only with people you enjoy.
Three
types of interaction: divers, dippers and skimmers.
Thrill of
the kill.
Through
our great good fortune, in our youths our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset
that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Through the
unknown, you’ll find the new.
Throw the
rock, hide the hand.
Throwing the measurement away doesn’t remedy underlying
injustices in children’s academic opportunities, any more than throwing a
thermometer away changes the weather. (SAT tests)
Thunder
is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
Ties that
bind – vs – ties that preoccupy
Tightening
the slack in society.
'Til the
stars are mad with envy.
Time and change cannot break these friendships.
Time and
trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman
is
uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Time
brings all things to light.
Time
disappears when you’re doing what you love
Time
dissolves more problems than man solves.
Time
doesn’t seem to pass here. It just is.
Time has
a way of changing your assets into liabilities.
Time is a
choice.
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
Time is a
great legalizer.
Time is
as welcome as a temperance band.
Time is
highly elastic.
Time is
more valuable than money.
Time is
not a predator.
Time is
not for wasting, but restlessness doesn’t enhance it.
Time is
the enemy.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Time is
the greatest innovator.
Time is
the only asset that you don’t own.
Time is
what keeps everything from happening at once.
Time
as opposed to money can’t be saved up. You can’t set it aside. You can’t refuse
to spend it. You spend it or it spends you.
Time makes us all wise, but always too late.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy
beautician." – Anonymous
Time
means nothing in the face of creativity.
Time
means nothing to a pig.
Time
moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Time
passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we
remember.
Time
waits for no one.
Time tax.
Time took us all in so many different
directions.
Timing is
all.
Tinkerers:
Players with skills of tinkering and incremental improvement win in the long
run over first movers in manufacturing-based businesses.
Tired is
my middle name.
Tis a far,
far better thing. (Dickens)
To a
friend’s house, the road is never long.
To a
hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
To argue
with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering
medicine to the dead. (Thomas Paine)
To ask
permission is to seek denial.
To avoid
criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. (Aristotle)
To be a poet is a
condition, not a profession.
To be
able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
To be an
entrepreneur is a condition, not a profession.
To be
called a fool by an imbecile is a badge of honor.
To be
conscious you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
To be
continued, unnoticed.
To be
emotionally committed to somebody is very difficult, but to be alone is
impossible.
To be
free, one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one’s weaknesses.
To be
great is to be misunderstood.
To be great truly great, you have
to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great. (Twain)
To be
happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and
inspires your hopes.
To be in
business, you have to be in business.
To be
kind to fools is to throw water into the sea.
(Fazer bem a
velhacos, e deitar
aqua no mar.)
To
be not merely beautiful, but alive to the fact of beauty’s slow fade, and to
seem more beautiful because of such terrible knowledge.
To be
right too soon is to be in the wrong.
To be social is to be
forgiving.
To be
successful: get up early, work hard, and strike oil.
To be
trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
To be vulnerable is to
be more alert and ideally more sensitive to what’s going on around you.
To be vulnerable is to
let others in, and there’s promise as well as peril in that. To admit to
vulnerability is to own up to being human. You show me someone who’s alive,
I’ll show you someone who’s vulnerable.
To be wise for others is easier than to be wise
for ourselves.
To become
a master at anything, you must nurture a very active patience.
To become
a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
To break
the molds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible
struggle, but one of the few that count.
To build or break a habit is not about resolutions but about
rules.
To call
these characters stick figures is to malign the timber industry.
To commit
suicide in Buffalo would be redundant.
To
conduct a just war, you must interrupt peace.
To
conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest
form of
generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
To
describe happiness is to diminish it.
To dream
was to be disappointed.
To each,
his peach.
To each
time its art, to each art its freedom.
To
every person there comes that special moment when he is tapped on the shoulder
to do a very special thing unique to him.
What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared for the work that
would be his finest hour.
To expect bad men not to do wrong is
madness.
To
experience kitsch is to gaze into the mirror of the beautifying lie and to be
moved to tears of gratification at one's own reflection.
To find
beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great
poetic art.
To gain,
you must yield.
To grasp,
let go.
To help make your
ambition a reality.
To win,
lose.
To
get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up
early, or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde
To get
what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done.
To get
what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough
place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.
To give
anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Pre
To know
all is to forgive all.
To know
trouble like it’s your best friend.
To live
is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else. (Dickinson)
To live
truthfully in an imaginary set of circumstances, that’s what it’s all about.
To love
is to suffer, and yet it blossoms among the broken branches.
To marvel
is the beginning of knowledge, and not to marvel, the first step toward
ignorance.
To obtain
experience without falsifying it through the act of observation.
To
oneself inside, one is always sixteen with red lips.
To open a
shop is easy; the difficult thing is to keep it open.
To open
one's eyes to that which is already known.
(Miha ry kichi.)
To say
that what can't be easily measured doesn't exist . . . is suicide.
To
see past their roles to their souls
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant
struggle. (Orwell)
To
sell something familiar, you want to be surprising. To sell something
surprising, you want to be familiar.
To
smile at opponents and friends alike is to abase one’s commitments to the
status of mere opinions.
To
stand still is to fall away from the truth; the inner life dims and flickers,
starts to go out, as soon as one tries to hold fast. It’s like trying to make
this breath serve for the next one, or making today’s dinner do the work of
next Wednesday’s as well. Truth rides
the arrow of time.
To steal ideas from
one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
To stick
to a mistake is much worse than making one.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Ulysses)
To
succeed in life, you need 3 things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.
(Reba M)
To
succeed you do need a certain fanaticism: there's so much to know and so little
time.
To
suppose that we can think like men of another time is as much of an illusion as
to suppose that we can think in a wholly different way.
To
suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived by him.
To
suspend criticism and think any idea is possible or good may ultimately be
destructive to creativity and success…
To teach
is to touch someone’s life forever.
To the
eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. (William Blake)
To the
world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
To travel
hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
To
trigger a trend today, you don’t need highly influential people, you need
easily influenced people.
To turn a
dream into a reality - write it down.
Don't just think it - putting your dream on paper is like stirring the
embers of your life into a fire.
To
understand whose picture it is one needs to look not particularly at the script,
but at the deal memo. (Joan Didion)
To us
much is given, more is expected.
To view
each other as more than obstacles.
To win 100 victories in
100 battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is
the acme of skill.
Today,
everybody coasts. They find their niche and stay in it. It's so hard to gain an
audience that they don't want to risk losing any of theirs. Experimentation is
anathema.
Today is
a good day to die.
Today is
not about finding a job, it’s about inventing one.
Today is the only day.
Yesterday is gone.
Today the
world is old, you flew away and time grew cold, where is that star that seemed
so bright, ages ago last night.
Today was
someday once.
Today
when you ask a politician for his cell number, he may be understandably
confused.
Today
your laptop is becoming less and less your laptop and more and more Apple’s
laptop or Microsoft’s laptop.
Today's
employees tend to value: participation over authority; individualism over
conformity;
quality over quantity; diversity over uniformity; experience over things.
Today’s
environment requires that we act in moments, but think in ages.
Today’s
lie is tomorrow’s fact.
Today’s
shocks are tomorrow’s conventions.
Tolerance is not about not having beliefs. It
is about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
Tomorrow
is often the busiest day of the week. Spanish
Proverb
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
Tomorrow
never comes.
Tomorrow
never knows.
Tomorrow
there will be sunshine and all this darkness will pass.
Tomorrow's
rain will wash the stains away, But something in our minds will always stay.
Too bad
there isn’t a statute of limitations on stupidity.
Too early
to know, but not too early to hope.
Too
early, too early…oops, too late.
Too good to believe, maybe, but not too good to
be true.
Too long
a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Too long a suffering makes a stone of the
heart.
Too many
people seem to think life is the tablecloth, instead of the messy feast that’s
spread out on it…that’s not life. Done
right, life leaves stains.
Too much
is always better than not enough.
Too much
is not enough.
Too much
of a good thing can be wonderful.
Too
much-ness
Too old
to cry – hurts too much to laugh. (stubbed toe in the dark)
Too poor
to paint and too proud to whitewash.
Top
dog/underdog: Internal battle between
the righteous, demanding perfectionist and the lazy, resistant saboteur that
neurotic individuals commonly conduct in a vain attempt to avoid the anxiety of
everyday living.
Torture
the data.
Tough
times don’t last. Tough people do.
Tourism is the greatest return on investment that you
could ever ask for.
Toxic
idyll.
Toys are
not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious
ideas.
Trading
analog dollars for digital dimes.
Tradition
is the illusion of permanence.
“Tradition”
is very often an excuse word for people who don’t want to change.
Traditions are an important means for a people
trying to stave off cultural betrayal. This is why traditions are often
targeted by agents of change.
Traditions
are not just encumbrances.
Tragedies
like this are the great bonfires in which all the trash of life is consumed.
(Claire Luce)
Tragedy
is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Tragedy
is becoming a winner at a game that’s not worth playing.
Tragedies
are plays where each reasoned step brings the protagonists closer to their
inevitable doom.
Train
yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. (Yoda)
Training
a camera on a live event is technology, not journalism: journalism requires
editing and context.
Transcend your past.
Transfer
and translate to innovate.
Transparency
is a discipline – it’s not a one-time event.
Transparency
leads inevitably to change and improvement.
Trash can
dreams.
Travelling twice the speed of sound, it's easy to
get burned.
Treat
GOOGLE like a mountain. You can climb the mountain, but you can’t move it.
Treat our
priorities as the things we do first.
Treat
people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what
they are capable of being. (Goethe)
Treat
people as they are, and they remain that way.
Treat them as though they are already what they can be, and you help
them become what they are capable of becoming.
Treat
start-ups like new restaurants – if they’re here in 6 months, I’ll give them a
try.
Trees
don't grow to the sky.
Trees
have roots. Jews have legs.
Tried and
true is dead and buried.
True
friendship offers deep satisfactions, but it also imposes vulnerabilities and
obligations, and to pretend it doesn’t is to devalue friendship.
True
genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and
conflicting information.
True
happiness always resides in the quest.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very
undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the
urge to serve others at whatever cost. (Arthur Ashe)
True humility is not thinking less of
yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
True
originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
True
peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
True rot
comes when you con yourself.
True
wisdom is always to be found far away from people, out in the great solitude.
Trump:
The Brute of All Evil
Trump endorsing Palin is like paste eating
endorsing glue sniffing.
Trump has been harder to pinch than flesh slathered in tanning
oil.
Trump is feral, focused on his own survival,
with no sense of shame or boundaries or restraint.
Trump is like a fire, too close and you get
burned, too far away and you are out in the cold.
Trump, the supposed master media manipulator, has the discipline
and strategic thinking of a coked-up Tasmanian devil.
Trust funds: Well, trust me, there won’t be any funds coming for you.
Trust the
system, not its parts or its people.
Trust
things that are alien and alienate things that are trusted.
Trust
vision over sight.
Truth
decay.
Truth
doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
Truth
doesn’t vary based on circumstances.
Truth
happens to an idea. It becomes true, is
made true by events.
Truth has
no special time of its own-its hour is now-always.
Truth is
its own witness.
Truth is
simply the opinion that has survived.
Truth is
terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all. (William
Goldman)
Truth is
that which cannot be proved false.
Truth
itself is often concealed in such a way that the harder you look for it, the
harder it is to find.
Truth
rides the arrow of time.
Truth to
be replaced by spectacle, facts by faith.
Truth
well told.
Try always to be the best that you can be.
Try
better, not harder
Try not
to be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Try not
to work for a person who has more problems than you do.
Try to be
better than yourself.
Try to be
happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come:
as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come,
and is ours.
Try to be
happy without it.
Try to be
one of the people on whom nothing is lost.
Try to
detect and fix any problem at the lowest-value stage possible
Try to do what you love with people you love, and if you can
manage that, it's the definition of heaven on earth.
Try to get rid
of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have
any real knowledge.
Try to
make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating old ones.
Try to understand what is important before it is too late.
Trying
to be happier is like trying to be taller.
Trying to
be obnoxious and irresistible simultaneously – and half – succeeding.
Trying to
be the “this” of “that”.
Trying to catch up with the past is a
fool’s race.
Trying to defeat charismatic men with facts and
logic is a fool’s errand.
Trying to
defend portholes to an engineer is like trying to show TV to a dog.
Trying to
interpret the words in some less final and definitive way
Trying to
knock the moon from the sky with a wiffle bat.
Trying to learn about sex from Hollywood is
like watching James Bond for tips on a career as a British civil servant.
Trying to
shoot pool with a rope.
Trying
to take the money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of
basketball.
Tsundoku
– buying books but never getting around to reading them.
Turbulence
is inevitable, but misery is optional.
Turd on
the table.
Turn a
phrase into a weapon or a drug. (Sara
Bareilles)
Turn
distraction into action. Beautiful
noise. Make noise now.
Turn the
stumbling blocks into stepping-stones.
Turn
variables into constants.
Turn
your business into a fire hydrant – painful when kicked – impervious to piss
and pissants - stable, secure, and there when you need it.
Turning
and turning in the widening gyre... / Things fall apart; the center cannot
hold.
Twenty
percent of a watermelon is better than 100% of a grape.
Twenty
years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late will be
your kids.
Twenty
years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than
by the things you did do. So, throw off
the bowlines—sail away from the safe harbor—catch the trade winds in your sail.
Twitter:
A clown car that drove into a gold mine.
Twitter has gotten so bleak, it’s a semi
abandoned mall in New Jersey where the TCBY has just one flavor left and it’s
peach.
Twitter
rewards becomes what we do. If we don’t, then no matter — no one sees what
we’re saying anyway. We become what the game wants us to be or we lose.
Two
alphas do not equal a functional relationship in any field.
Two bald
men fighting over a comb. (Falklands)
Two
buttons I never want to push: the panic button and the snooze button. (Ted L)
Two days
I never worry about: yesterday and tomorrow.
Two
different models for how to make money cannot peacefully co-exist in the same
business.
Two heads
on one body do not make for length of life.
Two is
better than zero.
Two kinds
of failure: man who will do nothing he
is told and man who will do nothing else.
Two kinds
of music: good and bad. Good music is the kind you tap your toes to.
Two of
the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.
Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
all the difference.
Two
skunks trying to breed a mink.
Two
things are bad for your heart - running up steps and running down people.
Two
things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when
you have everything.
Two types
of leaders: those who make history;
those who are history.
Two types
of men: those whose lives are
occasionally made miserable by women and those who are dead.
Two
warm cups of coffee don’t make a hot drink.
Two
ways to be – a saint or a thief.
Two ways
to be rich: one is to have more; the
other is to want less.
Two ways to do something – you can do it the right way or you can do