Quite a Quote!

Shah Rukh Khan: Our values are our values

“It’s okay to be confused. Confusion is the root to all the clarity in the world. Don’t worry about it too much. Don’t ever take yourself seriously enough to be so clear about your own ideas that you stop respecting other people’s. Our values are our values. They don’t make us any better than anyone…
Douglas Rushkoff: Press pause

“When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.”— Douglas Rushkoff.
Isak Dinesen: Birds in cages

“If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.” —Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen).
Mark Mobius: Shareholder activism

“Shareholder activism is not a privilege — it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and…
Mark Mobius: China and the US

“China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.” —Mark Mobius.
Margaret Thatcher: Consensus

“Consensus … is the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved.” —Margaret Thatcher.
Peter Ustinov: One day of modern warfare

“Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare.” —Peter Ustinov.
Jim Rohn: Setting goals

“The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.” —Jim Rohn.
Thomas Szasz: Closest thing to a genuine panacea

“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.” —Thomas Szasz.
Doug Gwyn: UNIX

“UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.” —Doug Gwyn.
Ray Kroc: Luck

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”— Ray Kroc.
Amy Goodman: Protesting

“Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying “no” to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.” —Amy Goodman.
Asha Bhosle: Quaver

“Those who are not trained singers will find that their voice quavers. That should not happen. The quaver should be used only where necessary and not because a singer cannot hold a note or a tune.” —Asha Bhosle.
Mary Beth Keane: We repeat what we don’t repair

“We repeat what we don’t repair.” —Mary Beth Keane.
Asha Bhosle: Unforgiving place

“The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can’t perform to high standards.” —Asha Bhosle.
Niels Bohr: Prediction

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” —Niels Bohr.
George Carlin: Caterpillar butterfly

“Caterpillar does all the work, but butterfly gets all the publicity.” —George Carlin.
William Hazlitt: Art of life

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.” —William Hazlitt.
Mark Manson: Ready

“The people who wait until they’re ‘ready’ never are. The people who just start realize they could have been ‘ready’ any time they wanted.”— Mark Manson (@markmanson).
Charles Baudelaire: Everything considered

“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” —Charles Baudelaire.
Ralph Marston: Excellence is an attitude

“Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude.”— Ralph Marston.
William Blake: Easier

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” —William Blake.
Miller Williams: Have compassion

“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.” —Miller Williams.
Henry Kissinger: Schedule already full

“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.” — Henry Kissinger.
Billie Holiday: Sermon

“You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.” —Billie Holiday.
Vincent Van Gogh: Good to love many things

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” — Vincent Van Gogh.
Nicolas de Chamfort: Colors

“We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.” —Nicolas de Chamfort.
Anthony Eden: Make the omelette

“If you’ve broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.” — Anthony Eden.
Vex King: Authentic people

“There’s a distinctive signature to authentic people: they prefer meaningful conversations with a few over shallow exchanges with many. Their love is demonstrated rather than declared. Their words and actions align, even when no one’s watching. They bring a quality of presence that makes you feel truly seen, and carry a sense of peace and…
Elon Musk: Self-limiting

“Most people self-limit their ability to learn. Just read books and talk to people. I didn’t study rocket engineering, I picked it up along the way.” —Elon Musk.
Edward Everett Hale: Never bear more than one trouble

“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” —Edward Everett Hale.
Gautama Siddhartha: East and west

“In the sky, there is no distinction between east and west; people create distinctions in their own minds and then believe them to be true.” —Gautama Siddhartha.
Marvin Gaye: War is not the answer

“You see, war is not the answer / For only love can conquer hate. / You know we’ve got to find a way / To bring some lovin’ here today.” —Marvin Gaye.
Kris Marshall: Social media addiction

“If I look at other people’s social media I feel addiction creeping up on me.”— KRIS MARSHALL.
Abraham Maslow: What one can be, one must be

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” —Abraham Maslow.
Charity Majors: Health of each individual event

“In a cloud-native world, we have entered an era where the health of the system no longer matters. What matters is the health of each individual event.” — Charity Majors.
Andrew Marvell: Deserts of vast eternity

“But at my back I always hear / Time’s winged chariot hurrying near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity.” —Andrew Marvell.
Dale Carnegie: You can’t win an argument

“You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.” — DALE CARNEGIE.
Vincent van Gogh: Nothing more truly artistic

“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” —Vincent van Gogh.
Eric Idle: Searching light of comedy

“At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive one, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas.…
Desiderius Erasmus: No experience of war

“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.” —DESIDERIUS ERASMUS.
Charlie Munger: Be unreliable

“[If you want to guarantee a life of misery], be unreliable. Do not faithfully do what you have engaged to do. If you will only master this one habit you will more than counterbalance the combined effect of all your virtues, howsoever great. If you like being distrusted and excluded from the best human contribution…
George Bernard Shaw: Unreasonable man

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” —George Bernard Shaw.
Alfred de Vigny: History is a novel

“History is a novel whose author is the people.” —Alfred de Vigny.
Kurt Cobain: They laugh at me

“They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” —Kurt Cobain.
Tennessee Williams: Devils

“Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of hand on hand, or mouth on mouth.” —Tennessee Williams.
Stephen and Mara Klemich: Love

“Love is our greatest need. Rejection is our greatest fear. We spend our lives seeking love and avoiding rejection.” —Stephen and Mara Klemich.
Gloria Steinem: Law and justice

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” —Gloria Steinem.
Jerry Seinfeld: Peak

“Every artist is only showing you his best. When you watch a movie, every scene—they only show you the one take that worked. Seventeen times, they missed it. You’re only seeing the peak of it.” —Jerry Seinfeld.
William Morris: Not for a few

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” —William Morris.