Latest Quotes

“I lose all the time.I lose against others. I lose against myself. I lose against time. I lose against life.I just lose.But that does not make me a loser.Like Rachna Nayak’s grandmother said 'be such a great loser that you lose all the pain that you have of losing.' I believe that this means that you…”

— Lalaina Rackson, Losing doesn’t make you a loser.

“I feel like the only way to keep moving is to stay numb.”

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

“For Silicon Valley, the media spotlight is a relatively recent phenomenon. Most executives and venture capitalists are accustomed to dealing with acquiescent trade journalists and a dazzled mainstream media, who will typically play along with embargoes, join in enthusiasm for new products, and hew t…”

— Nick Denton, An Open Letter to Peter Thiel

“We, and those you have sent into battle against us, have been stripped naked, our texts, online chats and finances revealed through the press and the courts.”

— Nick Denton, An Open Letter to Peter Thiel

“What use is moonlight? I reach into it, fingers open, and my hand is silvered and blessed, and comes back to me holding nothing.”

— Margaret Atwood, Interlunar

“When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.”

— Chris Rock, In Conversation CHRIS ROCK

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.”

— Prince, Rolling Stone Magazine 2004

“Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Commencement Address at Syracuse University, 2012

“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do.Make good art.I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crush…”

— Neil Gaiman, Commencement Address at The University of the Arts Philadelphia, 2012

“Being smart is not enough to achieve results. Plenty of smart people get beaten by others who are more hungry, take calculated risks, work harder, have better people skills, can execute better, or have more common sense. Recognize what you need in that total package to succeed.”

— David Cote, Commencement Address at University of New Hampshire, 2011

“We all tend to filter the world around us through what we know. So try and go beyond what you already know, fill your mind with the new, nourish it with different interests, open it to the extraordinary.Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision.”

— Sergio Marchionne, Commencement Address at University of Toledo, 2011

“When you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you’ll settle it by flipping a coin. But don’t go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?”

— David Brooks, Commencement Address at Rice University, 2011

“It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do with what happens to you.”

— Chris Waddell, Commencement Address at Middlebury College, 2011

“I do not wish you an easy path, because—trust me—you would be oh-so-quickly bored by that. You’d like it today and hate it tomorrow. Instead, I wish you a path filled with impediment and ambiguity and struggle and joy. With plenty of time to be alone, and then plenty of time to be with others, where…”

— Julia Keller, Commencement Address at Dominican University, 2010

“You get to make your own luck. 80% of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up, not those who wait to be asked.”

— Steve Blank, Commencement Address at Philadelphia University, 2011

“Do not give into this world and let the world set your measure of what is great; let the world set your standards. You have genius, you have greatness, you have glory, you have power inside of you that must be unleashed into the community. Do not settle. Do not yield. You have a truth that must be t…”

— Cory Booker, Commencement Address at Pitzer College, 2010

“Creativity is not something you are, it’s something you do. You have to work at it. The mundane aspects of life will creep up on you constantly, whether they’re the pressures of work or the distractions of American Idol and Facebook. You’ve spent years in this program building great strengths in cre…”

— Tom Brinck, Commencement Address at the Art Institute of California, 2011

“There's a story about going to a class of young children and asking these young kids, "Who can write an opera? A symphony? Be a high ranking leader, a politician, an astronaut, a doctor, a president?"And what happens? The whole class, they put their hands up because they don't know what can't be don…”

— Robert Rodriguez, Commencement Address at University of Texas, 2009

“Remember, true opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity – and if I don’t find it, I have to create it.”

— Sumner Redstone, Commencement Address at DeVry University, 2010