Quotes

© 2023 Daniel Friis
019

Everything not saved will be lost.

Nintendo, The quit screen
018

Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat
017

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Mike Tyson
016

No decision can claim to be the only right one; it is the energy that is put into the decision that determines whether it is right.

Ingvar Kamprad, The Testament of a Furniture Dealer, 1976
015

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.

William Gibson, The Economist, December 4, 2003
014

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi
013

Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal.

Ed Catmull
012

Your focus determines your reality.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Knight
011

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho
010

Do nothing. Say nothing. And be nothing.

Aristotle
009

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Marcus Aurelius
008

The key to behavior change is identity change.

Nir Eyal
007

It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.

Seneca
006

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Viktor E. Frankl
005

The future is not a destination - it is a direction.

Ed Catmull
004

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

Warren Buffett
003

We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on our experience.

John Dewey
002

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent will ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
001

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca