Quotes

• "I'm not prone to nostalgia, but there are days when I'd like to be thirteen again, making that bargain with the world that if you just go forward, learn more, understand better, you can make something truly useful and new." — Bill Gates, Source Code
• "The price is the pleasure of finding the thing out." — Richard Feynman
• "But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never." — William Friedkin
• "I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye." — Life of Pi
• "Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• "They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure." — Joseph Campbell
• "It is not in the nature of a man—nor of any living entity—to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when and how they lost it." — Ayn Rand
• "Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the circle of life ... Remember who you are." — Mufasa, The Lion King
• "Hesitation is fatal; once an action is begun, it must be followed through with the utmost exertion of the will." — Napoleon
• "A burnt child loves the fire." — Oscar Wilde
• "Until you make the subconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." — Carl Jung
• "You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one's soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire." — Moriah Densley, Song For Sophia
• "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever." — Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
• "Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere." — Anton Ego, Ratatouille
• "Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." — Wayne Gretzky
• "You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• "Change breaks the brittle." — Jan Houtema
• "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right." — Henry Ford
• "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." — Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
• "The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings." — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
• "Focusing is about saying no." — Steve Jobs
• "People who can't laugh at themselves will always be outwitted by people who can." — T. K. Coleman
• "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." — Teller
• "He recognized that many rules were in fact arbitrary. Yes, he tested boundaries and crossed the line at times. As a behavioral trait, that can be seen as antisocial — or if it happens to change the world, it can earn you the label "visionary". We frequently support the idea of pushing boundaries in theory, ignoring the trouble it can cause in practice." — Ed Catmull on Steve Jobs, Creativity Inc.
• "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." — Gustave Flaubert
• "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." — Charlie Chaplin
• "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself." — Emily Dickinson
• "Dentist?! my mother laughed. You can't be serious. What happens when they cure all teeth problems? Where will dentists be then? No, Bobby, people will always need entertainment. I'm looking out for your future. You're going into show business." — Robert McAkee, Story
• "Stories are equipment for living." — Kenneth Burke
• "What you seek, is seeking you." — Rumi
• "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened." — Mark Twain