Facebook Ruins Everything Quotes & Sayings

People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you'll get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don't just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it's really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That's the way the government does things. They do something really big that's really bad, and they think, Well, we'll make it better, and then it never gets better.
Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013 — Paul Graham

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it. — Louis D. Brandeis

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe. — Cullen Hightower

By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper) ... — Louisa May Alcott

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area. — Dolly Parton

Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket. — Ian Chappell

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it. — Marianne Williamson

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not. — Michael Jai White

Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles — Bernard Herrmann

That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin," he said with a wink. "Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again. — Brandon Sanderson

My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities. — Ryan Sheckler

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway,

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant. — Shirley Maclaine

Those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men leave behind them something real and warmly personal ... the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. — James Thurber

Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones. — Dharma Mittra