“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.“
Arthur Schopenhauer
Tag Archives: quotes
Quote of the day #59
“Anybody who knows the past isn’t allowed to turn refugees away. Anybody who sees the present can’t turn them away. Anybody who thinks about the future will not turn them away.”
Mercedes-Benz boss Dieter Zetsche
Quote of the day #58
“The trouble with revolution is that it usually replaces one form of imbalance with another.”
Henry Mintzberg in Rebalancing Society
(Professor of management studies at McGill University in Montreal)
Quote of the day #57
“Talent is ubiquitous, opportunity is not”
Valerie Jarrett
(Senior Advisor to US President Barack Obama)
Quote of the day #56
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .””
C. S. Lewis
Quote of the day #55
“The British are too polite to be honest, whereas the Germans are too honest to be polite.”
Henning Wehn (a german stand up comedian – he did
not come up with the expression, but I heard it from him)
Quote of the day #54
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
Wendel Berry
(often attributed to native indian Chief Seattle, but there is
no solid proof of that – thank you once again, Quote Investigator)
Quote of the day #53
“I’d like to die on Mars, just not on impact.”
Elon Musk (founder of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX)
Quote of the day #52
“A man who does not want anything, but does things solely to earn money, is in any case a poor man, even if he earns that money.”
Bertolt Brecht (in Dreigroschenroman)
Quote of the day #51
“The weird becomes the normal with remarkable speed these days.”
Andrew McAfee
(on how technological novelties get mainstream with ever increasing speed)
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