Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
Tag: Quotes
Fundamentally, humans are all designed in a similar way, so products that make life easier for one group are likely to help others too.
Tema Frank, Helping Seniors Helps Everybody, User Experience Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 1
To see is to forget the name of what one sees.
Paul Valéry
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
The Wind. The rush of unexpected events, and the doubts and criticisms of those around you, are like a fierce wind at sea. It can come from any point of the compass, and there is no place to go to escape from it, no way to predict when and in what direction it will strike. To change direction with each gust of wind will only throw you out to sea. Good pilots do not waste time worrying about what they cannot control. They concentrate on themselves, the skill and steadiness of their hand, the course they have plotted, and their determination to reach port, come what may.
Robert Greene
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” Steve Jobs’ inspiring speech about loving what you do, trusting your curiosity and intuition, the lightness of being a beginner, connecting the dots looking backward, thinking for yourself and remembering how little time you really have.
Books have the same enemies as people; fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valéry
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Paul Valéry