Latest Quotes

“Suddenly everyone's tale is tellable, which seems to me a good thing, even if not everyone's story turns out to be fascinating or well told.”

— David Shields, Reality Hunger

“I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Nature just decided, 'Okay, if I want to get conscious, I'm gonna need technology to do it because these people don't have clear enough minds to use telepathy. They are too cluttered.' Technology is an extension of nature, but people don't see it that way.”

— Jody Radzik, Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

“Chaos is the way that nature reasserts herself into our attempts at organization and control, especially when those efforts are intentionally oppressive.”

— Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

“We do not watch videos as much as we are engulfed by them.”

— Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture

“Take whiskey. Why do some people chose Jack Daniel's, while others choose Grand Dad or Taylor? Have they tried all three and compared the taste? Don't make me laugh. The reality is that these three brands have different images which appeal to different kinds of people. It isn't the whiskey they choo…”

— David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising

“Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.”

— David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising

“What good is something that scales well if it sucks? Why is size the ultimate goal or even a goal at all? If you're the kind of person who loves Seaside or the place where you work, you don't need it to be any bigger than it is. The inability to scale is one of the stupidest arguments against a poss…”

— Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

“Man is elementally indivisible from the biosphere. And this inseparability is only beginning to become precisely clear to us. In reality, no living organism exists in a free state on Earth. All of these organisms are inseparably and continuously connected — first and foremost by feeding and breathin…”

— Vladimir Vernadsky , larouchepub.com

“The concept of 'reprehensible action' presents us with some difficult. Nothing in all that happens can be reprehensible in itself: one not dare to eliminate it completely for everything is so bound up with everything else, that to exclude one part would mean to exclude the whole. A reprehensible act…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator.”

— Jake Lodwick, thoughtcatalog.com

“The luxury privilege of the next twenty years will be to leave the city. Not as its leashed servant in a suburb, but to wherever one wants.”

— Jason Fried, Remote: Office Not Required

“The U.S.-China relationship is still full of challenges. We are two large, complex nations with profoundly different histories, political systems, and outlooks, whose economies and futures have become deeply entwined. This isn't a relationship that fits neatly into categories like friend or rival, a…”

— Hillary Clinton, Hard Choices

“Salespeople with the highest annual revenue are those who are the most motivated to help their customers and coworkers; the engineers with the highest productivity and fewest errors are those who do more favors for colleagues than they receive. The highest achieving negotiators are those who focus n…”

— Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“If you truly believe in the potential of your company to change the world for the better, there's no excuse for settling for an acquisition. An acquisition is the end of a dream. Today's titans push the ideal of acquisition because they're afraid of future competitors. Google knows that its biggest…”

— Jake Lodwick, thoughtcatalog.com

“I do not want to be interesting, I want to be good.”

— Mies Van Der Rohe, Philip Johnson: Life and Work

“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It's a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. It is the persistent search for purity, the search for serenity, for silence as a presen…”

— Massimo Vignelli, claudiosilvestrin.eu

“Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.”

— Elli Stassinopoulos, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Nature expects a full-grown man to accept the two black voids, fore and aft, as stolidly as he accepts the extraordinary visions in between. Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”

— , Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“Never fall in love with a deal. A deal is just a deal. There will always be other deals and other opportunities. No deal is a must-do deal. If it is, you are at the mercy of the party sitting across the table and—trust me—they will know this perfectly well. In that case, your goose is cooked and you…”

— Felix Dennis , The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money