My 13 most favorite quotes
Last Updated on June 1, 2024 by Daniel
Several of these quotes pertain to creativity and how following your internal compass will rarely lead you in the wrong direction.
1. Steve Jobs from a 2005 speech at Stanford University
“You can’t connect the dots looking forwards; you can only connect them looking back. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny,life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference”.
2. Gustavo Flaubert‘s rules for artists
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work”
3. Giambattista Vico The only way of “knowing” a thing is to have made it, for only then do we know what its components are and how they were put together.
“Verum ipsum factum – we only know what we make”.
4. Tiago Forte
“Knowledge is now our most important asset and the ability to deploy our attention our most valuable skill”.
5. Winston Churchill
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries”.
6. Carl Jung
“Do, with conviction, the next and most necessary thing.”
7. St. Thomas
Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you; if you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
8. Ecclesiastes
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
9. Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
10. Anne Lamont This is one of the best quotes I have ever read
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
11. C. K. Chesterton
“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.”
12. Henry David Thoreau
“Circle round and round your life as a dog does his masters chaise. Do what you love, know your own bone. Chew it, bury it, dig it up and gnaw it still.”
13. Kaled Hosseini
“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life…you steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness…there is no act more wretched than stealing”.
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