Altshuller Institute Quotes & Sayings

I stay grounded because everyone around me floats — Pharrell Williams

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. — Jared Diamond

On top of physical pain like a metaphysical pinprick, writing abounds. — Julio Cortazar

They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So — Harper Bliss

Now pull back briefly from the dripping streets of Ankh-Morpork, pan across the morning mists of the Disc, and focus in again on a young man heading for the city with all the openness, sincerity, and innocence of purpose of an iceberg drifting into a major shipping lane. — Terry Pratchett

Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Overexcited? No! I'm getting very calmly worried that someone might shoot me! — Terry Pratchett

I was receiving at least ninety-nine incredible, positive, and life-changing responses for every negative or abusive one, yet I couldn't stop looking at the one percent. I couldn't get them out of my mind. I let them kill my excitement. I let them destroy my love for what I was doing. I let them shut me down. I let them bully me into changing the way I did things around here.
I almost stopped. I almost gave up. I almost quit writing.
But every time, I remembered my dad.
He taught me better than that.
And I forced myself to be excited again. I forced myself to see the goal and vision of why I was excited in the first place. I forced myself to start skipping over the negative replies and start diving into the loving ones. — Dan Pearce

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause — Richard Leakey

As great as it is to turn a monster caber, hit the game winning homerun, cause a fumble or clear a PR in weight over bar, there's a more amazing feeling. It's a feeling of victory ... true victory. This victory is eternal life through Jesus Christ. — Daniel McKim

Sometimes you'll laugh
Sometimes you'll cry
Life never tells us, the when's or why's
When you've got friends, to wish you well
You'll find your point when
You will exhale — Whitney Houston

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. — Paulo Coelho

The first most important , critical and strategic coalition in an individual's life is the coalition with ones own self. — Sameh Elsayed

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway. — Benedict Groeschel