Ashkan Mohammadi > Ashkan's Quotes

“In God we trust; all others must bring data.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Today you can be inactive, reactive, or proactive! Choose your "active" wisely.”
― Daren Martin

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
― Frédéric Chopin

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.”
― Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading

“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing”
― W. Edwards Deming

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”
― Goldie Hawn

“Sometimes you just have to play the role of a fool to fool the fool who thinks they are fooling you.”
― Shu Takumi

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something”
― Plato

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Change is inevitable, progress is not.”
― Max Mckeown, Truth About Innovation: A Small Book About Big Ideas

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend