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Steve Jobs5 quotes
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs · 2005Stay hungry, stay foolish. — Steve Jobs · 1974Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs · 2005Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years go on. — Steve Jobs · 2005You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something…because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference. — Steve Jobs · 2005David Foster Wallace4 quotes
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty, unsexy ways, every day. — David Foster Wallace · 2005The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master. — David Foster Wallace · 2005Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe. — David Foster Wallace · 2005In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. — David Foster Wallace · 2005Fred Rogers3 quotes
You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you. — Fred Rogers · 2002Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related. — Fred Rogers · 2002It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff. — Fred Rogers · 2002Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1 quote
A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man’s noblest impulses. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1978Barbara Bush1 quote
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well! — Barbara Bush · 1990Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1 quote
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf · 2011George Saunders1 quote
Err in the direction of kindness. — George Saunders · 2013Glenn Gould1 quote
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. — Glenn Gould · 1982Haile Selassie I1 quote
Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction. — Haile Selassie I · 1963Ian McEwan1 quote
It's worth remembering this: freedom of expression sustains all the other freedoms we enjoy. — Ian McEwan · 2015Ivan F. Boesky1 quote
Greed is all right... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. — Ivan F. Boesky · 1986J. Robert Oppenheimer1 quote
It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable. — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1946Jim Carrey1 quote
I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion. — Jim Carrey · 2014Nora Ephron1 quote
Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron · 1996Salman Rushdie1 quote
But it’s a resilient place, the world, and its beauty is still astonishing, and as for the mess we’ve made, you can change it, and I believe you’re going to. — Salman Rushdie · 2015