Catégorie : Quote
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that « my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. »
Isaac Asimov
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
La plupart des gens en quête d’identité sont pareils à des enfants lancés dans une chasse au trésor. Ils trouvent simplement ce que leurs parents ont caché.
Yuval Noah Harari – 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle
There is no past and no future; no one has ever entered those two imaginary kingdoms. There is only the present.
Tolstoy
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You will never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you.
“What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
A.A. Milne
Je sais calculer le mouvement des corps célestes, mais pas la folie des hommes.
Isaac Newton, après le krach boursier dû à la Compagnie des Mers du Sud
Je préfère les ennuis à l’ennui.
Jacob Abbou
Remember this. The world wants to assign you a role. And once you accept that role, you’re doomed.
Robert Greene
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bob Knight
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
Peter Thiel
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
F. M. Alexander
It’s impossible to learn that which you think you already know.
Epictetus
Capacity is a state of mind.
David J. Schwart – The Magic of Thinking Big
Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they’re willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser’s needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.
Josh, Kaufman. « The Personal MBA. »
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one… Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hofstadter’s Law: it always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Douglas Hofstadter
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Naval historian and management theorist