Latest Quotes

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”

— George R.R. Martin, A Feast For Crows

“Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”

— T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, no…”

— T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent

“Now investors have the advantage. Instead of venture capitalists begging to be allowed to invest, entrepreneurs are coming to them begging for cash. Investors are exerting their newfound power by asking more questions about a start-up’s prospects and taking more time to invest.”

— Katie Benner, Start-Ups Once Showered With Cash Now Have to Work for It

“Set up your own IPsec VPN server on Docker, with support for both IPsec/L2TP and IPsec/XAuth ("Cisco IPsec"). Based on Debian Jessie with Libreswan (IPsec VPN software) and xl2tpd (L2TP daemon).”

— hwdsl2, IPsec VPN Server on Docker

“What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; and that, when we come across a problem, we marshal all of our energies to solve it.”

— Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“Find, develop, and support good people, and they in turn will find, develop, and own good ideas.”

— Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room for it to grow.”

— Ed Catmull, Inc Amy. Creativity Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.”

— Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“I believe the best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know— not just because humility is a virtue but because until one adopts that mindset, the most striking breakthroughs cannot occur.”

— Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I want someone I can be completely myself around. I want to wake up in the morning, hair all sleepy and messy around my face, makeup off, baggy t-shirt on, and not feel like I have to be anything I’m not.”

— Marisa Donnelly, I Don’t Want A Lover, I Want A Best Friend

“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Silence

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment — we are all defined by something we can’t change.”

— Simon Van Booy, The Illusion Of Separateness

“How do you forgive yourself when others are unwilling to forgive you?”

— Sade Andria Zabala, Thought Of The Day

“I’m learning to just let them be, to let them align with my life when the time is right, to the let the universe bring them to me without having to run after them; because if you have to run after something, it means that it doesn’t want to stand still, it doesn’t want to be caught, it doesn’t want…”

— Rania Naim, I’m Slowly Learning To Just Let Things Be

“If you can’t handle me at my J.K. Rowling you don’t deserve me at my Joan Didion.”

— Chrissy Stockton, Ranking The Men On This Season Of ‘The Bachelorette’ By How Depressing They Seem

“If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you.”

— Anthony De Mello, The Way to Love

“If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you.”

— Anthony De Mello, The Way to Love

“How a woman can once again become violently desirable after you have broken up remains a mystery. Some, perhaps, have the same sense of retrospective admiration of their own bodies at the moment of leaving them.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990