Sir Walter Raleigh
Wise men [should be] like coffers with double bottoms; Which when others look into, being opened, they see not all that they hold.
Read More Sir Walter RaleighWise men [should be] like coffers with double bottoms; Which when others look into, being opened, they see not all that they hold.
Read More Sir Walter RaleighEvery moment I shape my destiny with a chisel. I am a carpenter of my own soul.
Read More RumiGive us the tools, and we will finish the job.
Read More Winston ChurchillSkate to where the puck’s going, not where it’s been.
Read More Wayne GretskyTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Read More Arthur SchopenhauerLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Read More SenecaProzium – The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anaesthetise grief, annihilate jealousy, obliterate rage. Those sister impulses towards joy, love, and elation are anaesthetised in stride, we accept […]
Read More Equilibrium (Film)From the moment we enter this life we are in the flow of it. We measure it and we mock it, but we cannot defy it. We cannot even speed it up or slow it down. Or can we? Have we not each experienced the sensation that a beautiful moment seemed to pass too quickly, […]
Read More The Illusionist (Film)From the moment they wake, they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue. I have never seen such discipline. I am surprised to learn that the word ‘Samurai’ means ‘to serve’.
Read More The Last Samurai (Film)Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Read More Calvin CoolidgeIf you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Read More Bruce LeeThe visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Read More Friedrich Nietzsche