Words & Letters
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.” ― Trevor Noah, ‘Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood’
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”―Arthur C. Clarke
“If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be…I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around – that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.” ― Milton Glaser
“I like John Hughes movies” – John Singleton
“If you want to look good in front of thousands then you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.” ― Damian Lillard
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin
“If you have to point at an enemy, our greatest enemy is apathy. We’d be able to achieve fantastic results if we were not trapped by the idea that nothing can be changed.” — Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”―Rainer Maria Rilke
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” ― Robert Frost
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti