Redzep Ivedik Quotes & Sayings

Listen amply.
Listen aptly.
Listen avidly.
Listen amiably. — Matshona Dhliwayo

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This idea of starting at the bottom and working one's way up may appear to be sound, but the major objection to it is this - too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity, so they remain at the bottom. It should be remembered, also, that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off. And that is another reason why it pays to start one or two steps above the bottom. By so doing one forms the habit of looking around, of observing how others get ahead, of seeing opportunity, and of embracing it without hesitation. — Napoleon Hill

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

Geeks are the coolest people. — Elijah Wood

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything. — Deborah Eisenberg

I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors. — Ellsworth Kelly

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? — George Bernard Shaw

[ ... ] a familiar art historical narrative [ ... ] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [ ... ] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis. — Grant H. Kester

Revolutions never go backwards. — Wendell Phillips

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657) — Blaise Pascal

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. — John Ziman