I desire the responsibility of nobody’s dullness but my own.
Lord Byron
Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle – they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
Alfred North Whitehead
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Bruce Lee
If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
Aza Raskin
…I am not afraid of falling over the precipice, but of throwing myself over.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your XXXX, then you deserve it.
Frank Zappa