Quotes burned into memory

Lines that hit hard and stay with you

  1. The quieter you become, the more you can hear. —Ram Dass

  2. The creative adult is the child who survived. —Ursula K. Le Guin

  3. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. —Anaïs Nin

  4. Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. —José Ortega y Gasset

  5. Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify…. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

  6. Thought is the enemy of flow. —Vinnie Colaiuta

  7. Good stories always beat good spreadsheets. —Chris Sacca

  8. Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. —Albert Einstein

  9. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. —Muhammad Ali

  10. Talent is the desire to practice. —Malcom Gladwell

  11. The details are not the details. They make the design. —Charles Eames

  12. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest to fool. —Richard P. Feynman

  13. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. —Eleanor Roosevelt

  14. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. —Goethe

  15. When we build, let us think that we build forever. —John Ruskin

  16. Judge talent at its best but character at its worst. —Lord Acton

  17. Poor thinking hides in complexity. —Shane Parrish

  18. Write with the door closed, edit with the door open. —Stephen King

  19. The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. —William Gibson

  20. It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. —Jonathan Ive