"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work."
- Gustave Flaubert
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
- The Wolf of Wall Street
"We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy."
- Anonymous, inspired by JFK
"When you focus on you, you grow. When you focus on shit, shit grows."
- Dwayne Johnson
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
- Margaret Mitchell
"I guess I’ve been working so hard, I forgot what it’s like to be hardly working."
- Michael Scott
""Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire"
- Lars Peter Hansen
"Fear is the fuel that we use for overachievement. If I wasn’t afraid at times, I wouldn’t work as hard."
- Sylvester Stallone
"The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck."
- Paul Virilio
"Live for coincidences. They give you the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe we are moving towards some kind of destiny where it's all explained."
- Jonathan Ames
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain."
- Vivian Greene
"An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
- Ernest Hemingway
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
- John Steinback
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."
- Andy Bernard
"Never cross a river that is on average 4 feet deep."
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something."
- Dmitri Shostakovich
"You don't know how fast time goes by until you get there."
- The Irishman
"Hide your strength, bide your time."
- Deng Xiaoping