I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect

Mark Twain

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

Edward de Bono

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Paulo Coelho

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Shunryu Suzuki

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Malcolm Gladwell

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

You can see a lot by looking

Yogi Berra

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Wayne Dyer

Deal with the world the way it is, not the way you wish it was.

John Chambers

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

Taiichi Ohno

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Ralph Peters

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Hélder Câmara

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Eugene Ionesco 

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hoffman

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.

Denis Waitley

Succes is not delivering a feature; Succes is learning how to solve the customers problem.

Eric Ries

Power corrupts, powerpoint corrupts absolutely.

Vint Cerf

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Bruce Feirstein

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Steven Wright

The biggest problem of the world is not climate change or overpopulation, the biggest problem is poor thinking.

Edward de Bono

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Danish Proverb

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Albert Einstein

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

Successs is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking

John Kenneth Galbraith

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Albert Einstein

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster

Oscar Wilde

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing happens until something moves.

Albert Einstein

Niet de dingen zelf, maar de opvattingen over de dingen verontrusten de mensen. Als wij op belemmeringen stoten, of verontrust, of bedroefd zijn, dienen wij nooit iemand anders aan te klagen, maar onszelf, dat wil zeggen: onze eigen meningen.

Epictetus

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts.
But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Albert Einstein

Stilstaan zet iets in beweging.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Dale Carnegie

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Norman Vincent Peale