Quotes

• "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
  - JK Rowling
  
  
• "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
  - Dr. Seuss
  
  
• "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
  - JK Rowling
  
  
• "If you need inspiration, don't do it."
  - Elon Musk
  
  
• "Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
  - Elon Musk
  
  
• "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."
  - Elon Musk
  
  
• "To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?"
  - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
  
  
• "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
  - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
  
  
• "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
  - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
  
  
• "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"
  - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
  
  
• "So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term."
  - Shane Parrish
  
  
• "The show was successful because I micromanaged it — every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That's my way of life."
  - Seinfeld
  
  
• "I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one."
  - Bill Gates
  
  
• "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
  - Annie Dillard
  
  
• "If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas."
  - Linus Pauling
  
  
• "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."
  - Nat Friedman
  
  
• "Don't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still."
  - Chinese proverb
  
  
• "Focusing is about saying no."
  - Steve Jobs
  
  
• "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
  - Mark Twain
  
  
• "Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming."
  - Donald Knuth
  
  
• "The best writing is rewriting."
  - E. B. White
  
  
• "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
  - Oscar Wilde
  
  
• "It is never too late to be what you might have been."
  - George Eliot
  
  
• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
  - Mark Twain
  
  
• "Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."
  - Drew Houston
  
  
• "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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
  
  
• "Do one thing every day that scares you."
  - Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• "The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
  - Mark Zuckerberg
  
  
• "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
  - Pablo Picasso
  
  
• "It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
  - Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."
  - Michael Jordan
  
  
• "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."
  - Henry Ford
  
  
• "When you cease to dream you cease to live."
  - Malcolm Forbes
  
  
• "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
  - Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• "If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
  - George Orwell