April 2014 Quotes
I’ve decided to initiate a series called “Shorts” where I intend to post in between longer “Blog” entries. I don’t want to commit myself to any specific rules in terms of frequencies, topic boundaries, or anything of the sort. As I do with the rest of the site, I simply want to publish what I find interesting, inspiring, or thought-provoking. This may be in the form of more concise (un)finished thoughts, guest entries, quotes, or any number of other mediums that will surely evolve as things develop.
For the first piece, I have curated recently read quotes.
“Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.” – Simon Sinek
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson
“I’ll do this for you without expecting anything specific back from you, in the confident expectation that someone else will do something for me down the road.” – Robert Putnam
“You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.” – Dalai Lama
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” – Maxim, Aesop’s Fables
“Procrastination is the thief of compound interest.“ – Venkatesh Rao
“Dance like no one is watching. Run like no one is watching. Eat like no one is watching. Welcome to being a human. No one cares about you.” – Jamie Woodham
“Don’t settle: Don’t finish bad books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.” – Chris Brogan
“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” – Maxim
“If someone was really the person who solved it [the problem], they’ll be able to answer at multiple levels…they’ll be able to go down to the brass tax. And if they weren’t, they’ll get stuck (…) Because anyone who struggled hard with a problem, never forgets it.” – Elon Musk, Ignition Conference (source)
“There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.” – What You Learn in Your 40s by Pamela Druckerman
“Excuses are easy. Finding the reason to actualize is not.” – Me
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde
“What good is having a belly if there’s no fire in it. Wake up, drink your passion, light a match, and get to work.” – Simon Sinek
“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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
“Persuasion is better than force.” – Maxim, Aesop’s Fables
“Demography is destiny.” – The Real Majority by Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammons
