Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

Paulo Freire

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Dalai Lama

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.

Carl Sagan

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

Bob Marley

History isn’t a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others.

Yuval Noah Harari

Temple Grandin

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.

Paulo Coelho

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

Malala Yousafzai

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

Charles Darwin

Never play to the gallery… Always remember that the reason that you initially started working is that there was something inside yourself that you felt that if you could manifest in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you coexist with the rest of society.

David Bowie

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing

Marcus Aurelius

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Agnes Varda

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Kurt Vonnegut

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Alfred Nobel

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

Sylvia Plath

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't.

Muhammad Ali

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge

Neil Degrasse Tyson

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new book, *If on a winter's night a traveler*. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.

Italo Calvino

Wherever you’re happy, stay. Wherever you sleep peacefully, dream. Wherever the hugs are the strongest, linger.

Margarida Rebelo Pinto

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Clara Barton

Engineering, electrical and mechanical, is positive in results. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.

Nikola Tesla

The value of something isn't what someone's willing to pay, but the value of something is what it contributes.

George Westinghouse

We cannot do great things on this Earth. We can only do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Be the change you wish to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Socrates

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tzu

You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.

Wayne Dyer

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self-awareness is the first step toward transformation. We can only change what we recognize in ourselves.

Daniel Goleman

True power lies in knowing when not to use power.

Brené Brown

Leadership is about empathy. It's about having the ability to relate to and connect with people to inspire them to do their best.

Oprah Winfrey

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Buddha

Osho

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

Steve Jobs

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Friedrich Nietzsche

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world

Nelson Mandela

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist

Pablo Picasso

Self-knowledge has value that goes beyond career - it is the foundation of a full and authentic life.

Travis Bradberry

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

The true measure of self-awareness is the depth of your understanding of the impact you have on others.

Simon Sinek

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor Frankl

People may forget what you said, they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Respect is earned, honesty is appreciated, trust is gained, and loyalty is returned.

Zig Ziglar

Emotional intelligence is the ability to make pauses between stimuli and responses.

Stephen Covey

You are not in the universe, you are the universe, an intrinsic part of it.

Eckhart Tolle

You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Listen twice as much as you speak.

Brian Tracy

Selling is helping. The more you help, the more you sell.

Richard Branson

In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.

Jeff Bezos

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meditation is silence, energizing and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Sri Chinmoy

A true education is the intellectual growth of an individual achieved through the exercise of critical thinking, tolerance, and creativity

John Dewey

Riding a wave is the ultimate feeling of freedom and pure joy.

Layne Beachley

René Descartes

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Neil Armstrong

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans

John Lennon

William Shakespeare

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Huey P. Newton

Francis Bacon

Winston Churchill

Benjamin Disraeli

Your emotions are the slaves of your beliefs. Therefore, you must constantly question your beliefs and thoughts.

Don Miguel Ruiz

It is not events that disturb us, but our interpretation of them.

Epictetus

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

Alfred Adler

Empathy is the most radical of human arts.

Gloria Steinem

Success in life is fundamentally linked to the ability to establish meaningful human relationships.

Henry Ford

Leadership is about making others believe in themselves.

Jack Welch

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their mental attitudes.

William James

Motivation comes from wanting to do something, not from having to do it.

Tony Robbins

Daniel Pink

Real motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Frederick Herzberg

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Tom Peters

Ginni Rometty

The greatest ability of a leader is to develop extraordinary abilities in ordinary people.

Abraham Lincoln

The true test of leadership is: if you turned around, would anyone be there?

Max De Pree

Saint Augustine

Learning is the only thing the mind never tires of, never fears, and never regrets.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Man is not only what he conceives himself to be, but also what he wishes to be.

Simone De Beauvoir

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-paul Sartre

Tom Hopkins

The best sales presentation I've ever made was when I stayed silent and let the customer talk.

Joe Girard

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.

Grant Cardone

Knowledge is not power. Power lies in the application of knowledge.

Dale Carnegie

The difference between an average salesperson and an extraordinary one is that the extraordinary persists five times longer.

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