I don’t believe in curse, I believe you make your own destination.
-Manny Ramirez, 2004 World Series MVP
Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance.
-Seth Godin
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.
-Hunter S. Thompson
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-Herm Albright
And I just kind of giggled because I thought, okay, this is someone trying to put another obstacle in front of our band. And every time they put an obstacle in front of us, we’re like, I’m going to eat this obstacle alive, and once I eat it, the outcome will be even greater than what you feared.
-Cedric Bixler-Zavala, The Mars Volta
You gotta live every week like it’s shark week.
-Tracy Jordan
In business it doesnt matter how many times you strike out - to be a success, you only have to be right once. One single solitary time and you are set for life.
-Mark Cuban
Few people do business well who do nothing else.
-Lord Chesterfield
You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
-Zig Ziglar
The moment that you start a company is the moment you won’t take no for an answer.
-Anon Friend of Marissa Mayer, Google
You’ll miss 100% of the shots you never take.
-Wayne Gretzky
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
-Dave Barry
The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
-Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM
This whole debacle with sideline reporters reminds me of a time when I was working for Jimmy Kimmel’s show and one of the writers sarcastically screamed at a producer, “Do us a favor, don’t show up for work tomorrow, we’ll see if the show’s any different.”
-Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
I like to think of Jesus as a mischievous badger.
-Cal Naughton, Jr.
Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.
-Thomas Edison
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
-Joseph Campbell
What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?
-Jimmy Buffett
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.Because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can
change the world, are the ones who do.
-Apple Computer, Advertising Campaign
As long as there’s, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.
-Mick Shrimpton, This Is Spinal Tap
If you’re careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
-Mario Andretti
First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is hard and meagerly paid; the second is easy and well-paid.
-Bertrand Russell, In Praise Of Idleness (1935)
Dude…once you start gettin high off life, the next thing you know, you are jogging to get “runner’s high”…don’t do it.
-Unattributed
You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair
