Here is a collection of quotes I love. Some quotes have videos.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
– Thomas E. Lawrence
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
- Winston Churchill
“But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
- John Maynard Keynes (The concluding sentence of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money)
“Even in the world of stupid men, there would still be profit.”
- Armen A. Alchian in Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory
“Science is question-driven. And the more interesting the questions, the more compelling the results.”
- Natalie Jeremijenko in Seed Video: Revolutionary Minds
“If you have to forecast, forecast often.”
- Edgar R. Fiedler in “Across the Board: The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting — Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent”
“The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.”
- Edgar R. Fiedler in “Across the Board: The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting — Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent”
“Explicit forecasts are better than implicit forecasts.”
- Edgar R. Fiedler in The Future Lies Ahead
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“Life is like a snowball. The really important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.” — Warren Buffett
“To me young has no meaning, it is something you can do nothing about. Nothing at all. But youth is a quality, and if you have it you never lose it.” — a comment made by Frank Lloyd Wright in an interview with Mike Wallace
“Together we cannot fail.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (listen to part of his 1933 “On the Bank Crisis” speech here)
“Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.”
- James Dyson
“The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
- Yves Saint Laurent, Fashion Designer
“The first job of a citizen is to keep your mouth open.” - Günther Grass, from NYT blog
“I don’t give back, I give forward.”
- Patsy Bullitt Collins , from NYT blog
“News has become instant as it flows around the e-universe. It has almost become probability news as research and fact checking go out the window. Probability news means that you don’t know whether it is true or not, it probably is true, but then again, probably not. Everything is now gossip around the village pump.“
- Margaret Atwood, from York University Alumni Matters
“I’m not wealthy, but I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do, and I decided not to do anything that doesn’t meet two criteria: expand my understanding of the world, and allow me to apply whatever understanding I have in some productive way.” – Robert McNamara in this Washington Post quote
“新聞是短歷史，歷史是長新聞。” – 許倬雲 (cited in this interview of 金庸 by 時代周報)
“Why think about a half full or half empty glass when you are next to a lake?”
- Kempton
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw
“The important thing is that the new administration should not be listening to just one point of view.” – Brooksley Born
Last Update: Oct. 20th, 2009
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