WORDS OF WISDOM - T

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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 risks, but don’t gamble.

 

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 crop/That come to stop. (Philip Larkin)

 

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 of a nation.

 

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 of you is never greater than the force behind you.

 

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 of the man.

 

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 force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve or even a full-scale anxiety attack.

 

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 only thing worse than a great victory is a great defeat. (Duke of Wellington)

 

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 you become, the more you can hear.

 

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 of the team is built on the insecurity of the individual.

 

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 people are likely to be more expressive in what (and whom) they deny themselves than in their gratifications.

 

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 you keep the world at bay for me.

 

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. Ross)

 

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 not enough deodorant for this conversation.

 

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 of talking. You don’t sing to feel better. You sing ‘cause that’s a way of understanding life.

 

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.

 

THINK: (rules for email): True, Helpful, Inspiring/Instructive, Necessary or Kind

 

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 other side of the fence.

 

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 not my home.

 

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