Favourite Quotes

We always look at the mountains in front of us and forget the mountains behind us were just as hard to climb. — Marjorie Armstrong, Mom

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso

Small hinges swing big doors.

To begin, begin. — William Wordsworth

A rising tide lifts all boats.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

If you want to be original, the most important possible thing you could do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work. — Adam Grant, The Originals

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. — Peter De Vries

You can't improve what you don't measure. — Peter Drucker

If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than who you are. — Master Shifu, Kung Fu Panda

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. — Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady

The quiet statisticians have changed our world; not by discovering new facts or technical developments, but by changing the ways that we reason, experiment and form our opinions. — Ian Hacking

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise. — Scott Fitzgerald

There is no true interpretation of anything; interpretation is a vehicle in the service of human comprehension. The value of interpretation is in enabling others to fruitfully think about an idea. — Andreas Buja

Good things come to those who wait, but only whats left from those who hustle! — Abraham Lincoln

Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless. — Morris Chang

In God we trust, all others bring data. – William Edwards Deming

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum — Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

Working for a true mentor is often much, much harder than working for a normal boss.

Education is not the learning of facts, But the training of the mind to think. — Albert Einstein

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. — George Burns

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — von Neumann

I've had a lot of troubles, so I write jolly tales. — Louisa May Alcott.