Misc Quotes Flashcards
Quote by Antione de Saint-Exupery on how to motivate men.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
- Antione de Saint-Exupery
Joseph Brotherton quote on true wealth
“My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.”
19th century British minster, reformer, and pioneering vegetarian
A hippy named Jedidiah’s quote on routine and time
“Routine is the enemy of time, it makes it fly by”
Robert Gates quote on strategy
“As a general rule, the way to achieve complete strategic surprise is to commit an act that makes no sense or is even self-destructive.”
Secretary of Defense, appointed by Bush retained by Obama
Einstein quote on learning
“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes”
Winston Churchill quote on hard times
“If you’re going through hell, keep going”
Shankar Vedantam quote on choosing the harder path
“Those who travel with the current will always feel like good swimmers. Those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine”
NPR Journalist
Quote by Swami Vivekananda on how to work
“Work incessantly, but do not bind yourselves; bondage is terrible.”
19th century Indian Hindu monk. Key player introducing the west to Vedanta and Yoga
Evelyn Waugh on being late
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
One of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. Author and Journalist.
David Foster Wallace on Truth
“The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you”
Author
Aurthur Miller on jokesters
“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody will lend him money.”
20th century American playwright
Maya Angelou on how to make an impression
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
American poet and author
Francis Bacon on how to read
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to fin talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider”
English philosopher and scientist, father of the scientific method. 1561-1626
Plato on kindness
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
4th century BC
George Burns on hapiness
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
Actor, comedian
William Arthus Ward on teaching
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Mid 20th century writer and prolific producer of maxims
Thomas Jefferson on valuing peace above all
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not”
Henry David Thoreau on the voice in our heads
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion”
American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolishionist
1817-1862
Jim Rohn on building defense mechanisms
“The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.”
Inspirational self help guru, predecessor to Tony Robbins
Winston Churchill on having enemies
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Proverbs 15:17 on love vs. money
“Better a dish of herbs where there is love, than a fatted ox and hatred.”
Pascal on the mind
“The mind of man at one and the same time is both the glory and the shame of the universe.”
French mathematician, philosopher, and Catholic theologist 1623-1662
Two questions consistently asked by Munger before making a decision
First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered?
And second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is automatically doing these things—which by and large are useful, but which often misfunction.
Grandma’s Irish Prayer
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Einstein on the use of simplicity in explanation
If you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t know it well enough.
Quote on the problem with the world today
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell, British Polymath 1872-1970
Quote on what life is and how to make it as rich as possible.
“Life is nothing more than a stream of experiences—the more widely and deeply you swim in it, the richer your life will be.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Contemporary author on flow
Seneca on when to start living, and how to treat the sanctity of each day.
Begin to live at once, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca
Emerson on routine and consistency
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Author
Alfred North Whitehead on how civilization expands
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them
