“Intelligence is not about knowing the answers but about asking the questions”– Piero Scaruffi
“In science, the problems you start with, may not be the only ones you solve.”
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’” - Isaac Asimov
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. “–Carl Gustav Jung
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”–Albert Einstein
“I make mistakes, therefore I am.”
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”–Alfred North Whitehead
“Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.” –Marcel Duchamp
“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”–Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Today is the oldest you’ve been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
“Many people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply.”
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” –Oscar Wilde
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”–Albert Einstein
“No matter how “busy” a person is, if they really care, they will always find time for you.”
“The heart says yes, the mind says no.”
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.”–Lyall Watson
“Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.” –José Marti
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”–Robert McCloskey (1914-2003), Author of Make Way For Ducklings
“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.” — Brian Tracy
“Close scrutiny will show that most “crisis situations” are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.” — Maxwell Maltz
“The fact that you are willing to say, “I do not understand, and it is fine,” is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.”–Wayne Dyer
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”–Elbert Hubbard
“L’automne est un deuxième printemps où chaque feuille est une fleur.” –Albert Camus
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
“In the middle of the way of our life , I found myself in an obscure forest in which the right way was lost.”
“Laughter will always be the best medicine, silence will always be the best revenge, and Love will always be all you need”
“I’m not perfect, but I have perfect moments.”
“Successful people question better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” – Anthony Robbins
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”–Albert Camus
“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”–Anais Nin
“Be yourself. There is something that you can do better than any other.”
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”–Sren Kierkegaard
“When I was young , I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship.”–Albert Camus
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” –John Louis von Neumann
“Today is the oldest you’ve been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” –George Bernard Shaw
“It’s not about the happy ending…It’s about the story!”
“I don’t want to be different, I want to BE the difference!”
“It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.” –Barack Obama
“Focus on how far you’ve come, not how far you have to go.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”–Marie Curie
“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” -Tony Robbins
“Always treat people as ends in themselves and never solely as means to an end.”–Kant
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you’ll never get anything done.”
“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science…To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness.”–Albert Einstein
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” –Shunryu Suzuki
“Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.”–Otto Rank
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” –Nietzsche
“Woman … is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.”–PAULINE RÉAGE
“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”–Bob Dylan
“It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.”–Dr. Seuss
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are drowning in information, but starving for knowledge.” –John Naisbett
“It’s very simple to be happy but it’s very difficult to be simple.”
“I can say I think therefore I am, but I cannot say you think therefore you are.” –Henry Markram
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.” –Steve Jobs
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”–Robert McCloskey
I only need three things in life: food, WiFi, sleep!!
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.– Tom Stoppard
Always do what is right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.–John Lennon
Whatever you are be a good one.–Abraham Lincoln
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. –Hippocrates
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
– Dandemis
“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”– Albert Einstein
One of the hardest decision you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar wild
“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”–Erica Jong
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.” Erica Jong
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” Erica Jong
“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”–Erica Jong
You see a lot of ugly guys with pretty women, but you hardly ever see a pretty guy with an ugly woman.”
You see a lot of pretty women with ugly guys, but you hardly ever see a pretty guy with an ugly woman .”–Maryam Naghizadeh
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”–Mark Twain
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”–Mark Twain
“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”–Konrad Lorenz
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” Sir William Bragg
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”–Pablo Picasso
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” –Carl Jung
“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.” ~ Ken Hakuta.
“We seem as a species to be driven by a desire to make meanings: above all, we are surely Homo significants - meaning-makers” – Daniel Chandler
“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”–Kahlil Gibran
“Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the smart thing to do. When women succeed, nations are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.” – Barack Obama
“Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not.” –George Bernard Shaw
I like solitude, as long as someone drops by to chat about it from time to time
“Je n’aime pas les hommes ; j’aime ce qui les dévore “–André Gide
“I am never content until I have constructed a mechanical model of the subject I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. Otherwise, I do not.” –Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
Mais il vient toujours une heure dans l’histoire où celui qui ose dire que deux et deux font quatre est puni de mort. L’instituteur le sait bien. Et la question n’est pas de savoir quelle est la récompense ou la punition qui attend ce raisonnement. La question est de savoir si deux et deux, oui ou non, font quatre.
La peste, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four.
Albert Camus, The Plague
“Mais il vient toujours une heure dans l’histoire où celui qui ose dire que deux et deux font quatre est puni de mort. “–Albert Camus
Never apologize for having high standards, because people who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle, and a happy start.
“Life is only understood backward, but it must be lived forward.”–Soren Kierkegaard
You can’t buy happiness,…but you can buy chocolate, and that’s kind of the same thing!
“No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.” – Marvin Minsky
It’s how we do things around here: we aim high, choose the shallowest move, shake the surface, close our eyes and dream the impossible change.
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. “
~Isaac Newton.
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”– Albert Einstein
“Don’t be so humble - you are not that great.”–Golda Meir
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” – Wernher Von Braun
“It’s not simply enough to sleep after learning. It turns out you also need to sleep before learning.” –Matthew Walker
You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.
You have the power to say, “This is not how my story will end.”
“She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.”
~ Jedediah Berry
Reading is also my mental comfort food. When I’m anxious or unhappy, I re-read my favorite children’s books — and the more upset I am, the further back I go.”
Gretchen Rubin
If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to far go together. African proverb
Photographers are violent people. First they frame you, then they shoot you, then they hang you on the wall.
“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself wrongly right. Right?” –Lemony Snicket
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”–Douglas Adams
“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” –Carnegie Dale
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. – Carnegie, Dale
“I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was…”
As most will attest… life is not easy. It’s full of peaks and valleys, good and bad, people that give up or give in… and those who keep moving forward over and around any obstacles no matter what setbacks are encountered.
To succeed sometimes you have to break things down, tear them down, beat them down so you can rebuild something better–something that is right for you. As Kipling put it, “…stoop and build… with worn-out tools…”.
Or as J.K. Rowling so aptly puts in the following (and watch the video for her full speech on the subject):
“…why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” –J.K. Rowling
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”–J.K. Rowling
I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. “
If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
The best is yet to come…
“If you believe that you are right, be steadfast in articulating your views. Do not hesitate to challenge conventional wisdom. Be gracious in responding to harsh criticism.” Lotfi A. Zadeh
“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” – Alfred Hitchcock
What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”–Ellen Burstyn
Build confidence: Fake it until you make it.
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”–Albert Einstein
“The fashions of thought change but mental excitement never goes out of style.”–Alexander Nemerov
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” –Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
…how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.
“I want to be alone … with someone else who wants to be alone.” – Dimitri Zaik
“The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”– Erwin Schrödinger
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.” –Stephen R. Covey
“A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.” ~ Dorothea Brande
“I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story
You were wild once, don’t let them tame you.
refers to the fact that each of us creates- often without our conscious intent or knowledge- circles of influence that may affect others for years, even for generations. That is the effect we have on other people is in turn passed on to others, much as the ripples in a pond go on and on until they’re no longer visible but continuing at a nano level.
–Irvin D. Yalom
“I swear I can taste the molecules dancing in the mountains…”
~ Leonard Cohen
“Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing…. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.” – Lao Tzu
We live in an increasingly cynical age where romantic love has been distilled into algorithms of data, where love is reduced to nothing more than an addiction runs through your neurotransmitter rather than heart, biochemically no different than an addiction to cocaine. Imagine that, right? The romantic passion of the lover, reduced to selfishness. There’s something kind of cynical about this resignation, about letting go of that ecstasy of love that inspired the Romeo and Juliet story, where we lose ourselves and put the lover on a pedestal. We easily get moved to tenderness and beauty, but those in between times, those moments of pillow talks, calling baby names to each other, treating each other like children, promising future to each other, those cuddling, those holding hands and kissing each other, wrapping arms around each other’s shoulders and getting closed as much as possible, these moments, these exchanges, these intimacies, these moments of consummation, and that promise, I think, keeps us searching and keeps us chronically dissatisfied, we will not settle, we will not let go of that romantic dream, of that moment, of that tenderness, of that goosebumps. Can you blame us for squeezing so tightly around one another? Can you blame us for wanting to listen to beautiful music and cry together? Can you blame us for wanting to seek out comfort in each other’s cold soul space and to say, “Please tell me you’ll not leave me, you will not disappear, I will not be alone”? You know, that’s what we want, that’s what we seek. And then they say, “Oh we are co-dependent, we’re weak. We should be Independent.” But come on man, it’s eco-delic, it’s all interconnected, we are all one, we’re not alone. It is okay to be co-dependent. It is not a bad thing.
But this addiction of romantic love always results in a heartbreak. I believe that we are all wounded. I believe that we are all bleeding. I think the reason that in romantic context we are attracted to others who are wounded is because we feel that by saving them, we in turn save ourselves, right? Romantic love is a perfect consummation with perfection itself. We are purged in these instances in which we find another eyes we will be reflected and saved, right? This notion that we will see ourselves being seen by another who bestows us with light. But ultimately, the crux of the human condition is the perhaps tragic realization that you can’t save the ones you love. Those wounded birds, the manic pixie dream girl, you can’t save her. So what does that mean? It means if you can’t even save the ones you love, how can you save yourself, right? This is the tragedy of the human condition. This is the sad song that gives you the goosebumps and makes you cry. This is the lyric that makes you tear up. It is the acknowledgement of something that aches, something that is, of something that we wish was not the case. There is beauty in this tragedy, but first let us acknowledge the tragedy of it, and then we can keep the holy memory by saying, it happened. We exist. We felt something.
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” - Leonardo da Vinci
Be careful of what and what you believe in. Find someone that you love fiercely. And who loves you back the same way. And you treat them well. And you know it’s of value. Also, you shouldn’t be scare of the world it was. I kind of suspect the world should be scare of you.
When Someone Hurts You Cry a River,Build a Bridge and Get Over It!
There is nothing more practical than a good #theory .
– Kurt Lewin