Creativity is not a talent it is a way of operating.
John Cleese
Quotes
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Budgets are a tool, not a weapon.
Seth Godin
If you think you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Walter Mondale
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”
James Clear – Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits
“Just start. Start slow if you have to. Start small if you have to. Start privately if you have to. Just start.”
James Clear
Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Herbert Simon 1971
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
The most powerful people are the ones who never stop learning.
Rejoice Denhere
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
We run the company by questions, not answers.
Eric Schmidt (former chairman and CEO of Google)
You don’t get harmony when everyone sings the same note.
Doug Floyd (the Spokesman Review – Washington paper)
There are no old roads to new directions.
attributed to Boston Consulting Group
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
Alan Alda – commencement speech – 1980
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Proverb
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-unknown)
The different between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Anonymous
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein (1879-1855)
Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayanna (1863-1952)
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F Kennedy (1917-1963)
If you add only a little to a little and do this often, soon that little will become great.
Ancient Greek poet Hesiod
Works And Days
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
Talk at Creative Think seminar
If you care too much about being praised, in the end you will not accomplish anything serious. Let the judgments of others be the consequence of your deeds, not their purpose.
Leo Tolstoy
A Calendar of Wisdom
It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Aldous Huxley
Think of many things. Do one.
Portuguese proverb
A good teacher does not teach facts, he or she teaches enthusiasm, open-mindedness and values.
Gian-Carlo Rota
Be excellent to one another.
Bill and Ted
Movie; Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Aikido instructor George Leonard on mastery:
”How long will it take me to master Aikido?” a prospective student asks.
“How long do you expect to live?” is the only respectable response.
From James Clear newsletter.
(I think you can replace (Ctrl + H) Aikido with Excel.)
James Clear
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
Frank Herbert (1920-1986)