Daily Quote Archive
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others."
-George Kneller
"Trust is everything. You break it, you're done."
-Dick Krajczar
"Transformation begins with love; changing your energy from negative to positive, thinking about things you can do, as opposed to what you can't do."
-Stedman Graham
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
"I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility."
-Everett Dirkson
"There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."
-Charles F. Kettering
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
-Erich Fromm
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
-Victor Hugo
"The ultimate test for a leader is not whether he or she makes smart decisions and takes decisive action, but whether they teach others to be leaders and builds an organization that can sustain its success even when they are not around. True leaders put ego aside and strive to create successors who go beyond them."
-Lorin Woolfe
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running."
-Thomas Friedman
"We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty."
-William Deresiewicz
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
-Edward de Bono
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."
-Charles Brower
"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done."
-Sam Ewing
"Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks."
-Dick Nicolose
"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."
-Jack London
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."
-Tony Benn
"Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket."
- Gino Bartali