There can be much wisdom in a carefully crafted one liner. These quotes have special significance for me in my personal life. Most reflect how I wish to lead my life and the others are survival skills to keep me on track.
| Alan Kay |
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." |
| Aristotle |
"We make war that we may live in peace." |
| Arthur Schopenhauer |
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." |
| Carl Sandburg |
"Nothing happens unless first we dream." |
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| Doctor Who |
"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." |
| Douglas MacArthur |
"You are remembered for the rules you break." |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
"The truth is more important than the facts." |
| Kahlil Gibran |
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." |
| HL Mencken |
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood." |
| Mark Twain |
"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself." |
| Martin Luther King |
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." |
| Plato |
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." |
| Shana Alexander |
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." |
| Thomas Edison |
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." |
| William James |
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." |
| Winston Churchill |
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." |
