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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
— Albert Einstein

tags: future
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"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
— Plato

16 people liked it

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
— Bill Gates

13 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,522 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
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"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

10 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"I bent my Wookie."
— Ralph Wiggum

tags: absurd
10 people liked it

"I found a moonrock in my nose "
— Ralph Wiggum

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"Where there is meaning there is design."
— Chris Bangle

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"Organizations are not just places where people have jobs."
— Doug Smith

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"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
2,068 people liked it

"The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism."
— Norman Brenner

2 people liked it

"It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously."
— Peter Ustinov

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"Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
— Greg Anderson

2 people liked it

"No matter how well you decorate a cubicle it s still a cubicle."
— Dan Rosensweig

1 person liked it

"You can't 'increment' yourself into the future."
— Watts Wacker

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"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
— Woody Allen

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"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
— Aristotle

21 people liked it

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
— Francis Bacon

4 people liked it

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
2,200 people liked it

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
— Henry Ford

tags: ford, henry, progress
20 people liked it

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature."
— Joseph Campbell

4 people liked it

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
— Charles H. Duell

tags: 1899, office-of-patents
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"Ideas cannot be limited to the confines of a silo. They need space to run around and occasionally bump into strangers."
— Steve Hardy

1 person liked it

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
— Winston S. Churchill

79 people liked it

"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up."
— Chuck Palahniuk

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"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "
— Orson Welles

6 people liked it

"Let each man exercise the art he knows."
— Aristophanes

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"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
— Duke Ellington

8 people liked it

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

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— Frida Kahlo

tags: paint
29 people liked it

"What we play is life."
— Louis Armstrong

1 person liked it

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
857 people liked it

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
— Thomas Mann

tags: writers, writing
202 people liked it

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
— Horace Walpole

1 person liked it

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you ll never find it."
— Charles Percy Snow

1 person liked it

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
— Alan Kay

16 people liked it

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. "
— Plato

14 people liked it

"For four fifths of our history our planet was populated by pond scum."
— J. William Schopf

2 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
1,020 people liked it

"When you're through changing, you're through.

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— Bruce Barton

tags: life
5 people liked it

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
— Robert Wilensky

tags: infinity, monkeys, shakespeare
15 people liked it

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
— Anaïs Nin

18 people liked it

"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
— Edgard Varese

8 people liked it

"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."
— T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets)

tags: poetry
137 people liked it

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

tags: facts, humor
357 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,996 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,834 people liked it

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