“You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.” NeedsProblemEarthExistencePrayingBattleScientistBiggerArmySpeciesSolveCosmosTemporaryFragileBigger Problems Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water” HeartHappensWaterTakenFishesRemembranceDhikr Author:Ibn Taymiyyah
“If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.” IfsWayNeedsHappensCoursesWonderDemandEmbracePreparedChosenLeapBe PreparedNeed YouChasms Author:Seth Godin
“Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.” ProduceTypeAnalysisMonkeys Author:Eric Schmidt
“You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go” WayTurnsOughtHandle Author:Confucius
“The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.” WellsPhilosophyCreativePromiseIncreaseInventionWell BeingEthicalHumankind Author:Paul Hawken
“Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.” DoeLastsClassStruggleReaderIdealsEditorsLapCarelessSteersReviewersMeddling Author:John Updike
“The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.” MatterBigsJobsWhitePowerfulHolyKissingAssTempting Book:Sometimes a Great Notion Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.” IfsThinkingLongEnoughStupidityNot SureTenacity Author:Adam West