“If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.” — Malcolm Gladwell
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” — Bill Cosby
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” — Steve Martin
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.” — Aaron Swartz
“If you have ever struggled in life, feeling grateful comes easy.” — David O. Russell
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” — Unknown
“If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time: You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to go on doing things you don’t like doing — which is stupid!” —
Allan Watts
“Don’t let other people’s ideas of success and good or meaningful work filter your perception of what you want to do. Listen to your heart and mind’s purpose” — Maria Popova
“I truly, truly believe that our first responsibility is to ourselves—to be true to our sense of right and wrong, our sense of purpose and meaning. That’s how we contribute to the world. Anyone who is able to do that for him or herself is already contributing a great deal of human potential into our collective, shared pool of humanity.” — Maria Popova
“It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.” — Eleanor Roosevelt