My Favourite Quotes

Some Really Great Quotes

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but ot simpler.
Albert Einstein

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buehner

If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter
Blaise Pascal

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.
Banksy

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo Tolstoy

What we see depends on what we thought before we looked
Myron Tribus

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Niels Bohr

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Yogi Berra

Funny how we don’t have time to make improvements, but we have plenty of time to perform work inefficiently and keep resolving the same problems over and over.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.
Edwards Deming

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt

When will all the rhetorical questions end?
George Carlin

Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.
Arnold Toynbee

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We are defined by what we tolerate.
Marilyn Carlson Nelson

Results without process can’t be replicated and process without results is worthless.
Steve Ewing

We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.
Anaïs Nin

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Sir Francis Bacon

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri-Louis Bergson

People don’t resist change, they resist being changed.
Peter Scholtes

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.
Shannon L. Alder

All progress begins with telling the truth.
Dan Sullivan

Optimize for efficiency and you get gridlock. Optimize for speed of flow and you get efficiency.
John Terry

Outside of a Dog, a Book is Man’s Best Friend. Inside of a Dog, It’s Too Dark to Read.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx

What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There’s an epidemic of interruption out there. No wonder people have to put in 60+ hours a week just to get 40 hours worth of work done.
Jason Fried

The door of the human heart can only be opened from the inside.
William Holman Hunt

You don’t play whatever you feel. The only freedom is in structure.
Brandford Marsalis