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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

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People

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Georges St-Pierre

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

Kindness makes for much better teamwork.

John Wooden

Truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

John Maxwell

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Irving Stone

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

Helena Rubinstein

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M. Scott Peck

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Neil Gaiman

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Steve Jobs

The simple act of caring is heroic.

Edward Albert

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.

Winnie The Pooh

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

George Bernard Shaw

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Harry S. Truman

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

My idea of comfort is a good lamp to read by.

Lucien Rees Robert

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.

Robert M. Pirsig

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

William Blake