Those that know me well, know I’m an avid reader.
Over the years I’ve managed to capture quite a few lines of text that I found thought-provoking, profound, encouraging…or often, a better articulation of my own thoughts on a particular issue.
This is an ongoing collection of those quotes.
Politics | Startup | Business | Science | Proverbs | Poetry | LyricsPolitics
An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.
Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
Startup
Our biggest regrets turn out to be acts of omission. It’s paths not taken and they haunt us.
Jeff Bezos
The most impressive people I know spent their time with their heads down getting shit done for a long, long time.
Sam Altman
Hire character. Train skill.
Peter Schutz
If you are not replaceable, then you are a liability to your company.
Ari Meisel
Business
Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.
Mark Cuban
Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
Peter Thiel
Science
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard Feynman
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy, which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.
Carl Sagan
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan
Proverbs
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese proverb
Poetry
There is a pleasure in the pathless wood;
Lord Byron
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man less, but Nature more…
Lyrics
No, I don’t go to church, can’t quote a bible verse,
Devin Dawson, Dark Horse
Couldn’t sing a psalm that don’t mean that I don’t talk to Jesus.
Girls say I push them off, that I can’t open up,
But I ain’t afraid of love, when I say it I just want to mean it.