If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea... -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. -- Berthold Auerbach
Whatever few awards are presented for risk control, they're never given out in good times. The reason is that risk is covert, invisible. Risk--the possibility of loss--is not observable. — Howard Marks
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. — Louis L’Amour
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. — Alfred Hitchcock
It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent. -- Nassim Taleb
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination … Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. -- Jim Jarmusch (via Kirby Ferguson @ TED)