Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.
Aleks Krotoskm, broadcaster, journalist, and social psychologist
Quotes
This page contains resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts and videos.
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I will update this list as I discover new resources. If you have a resource you think I should add, please email me.
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood author of The HandMaid’s Tale
If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help.
Seymour Chwast
Source: The Left-Handed Designer
Even if you’re not a teacher, be a teacher. Share your ideas. Don’t take for granted your education. Rejoice in what you learn and spray it.
Source: 9 Life lessons
Tim Minchin
It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.
Julia Cameron, the Artist’s Way
Style—to renounce all but the essential, so that the essential may speak.
Freya Stark – travel writer
“Retreating with enthusiasm is a sign of wisdom and long-term thinking.”
Seth Godin
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
John Dryden
“Doth thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
“We know what we are but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare
“Play is the highest form of research.”
Albert Einstein
You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
Neil Gaiman – author
If you knew how much effort went into it you would not call it genius.
Michaelangelo
“Everything not saved will be lost.”
Nintendo “Quit Screen” message
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk (Novelist)
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
Source: Aragon in The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkein
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Elliot
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Writer and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez
I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
Environmental activist, Frances Beinecke
Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
A Fremen proverb from Dune by Frank Herbert.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
The difficulties of life are meant to make us better, not bitter.
Anonymous
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
John W Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Jean-Georges Vongerichten showed me the value in taking away, taking things off of a plate. … The more you put on the plate, the easier it is to hide. The more you take away, there’s nowhere to hide—it has to be good.
Chef Wylie Dufresne
A Conversation with Wylie Dufresne