It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire

William Shakespeare

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

Eric Ries

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Peter Guber

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Bryan Adams

Jangan percaya terhadap cinta, karena itu akan menjajah hidup kamu! begitu kata Roy. Seorang petualang jiwanya tidak bisa dimiliki, karena dia butuh inspirasi. Kalau jiwanya sudah diikat, berarti dia akan beku dan mati. Baginya, cinta bukan berarti harus menjadi jangkar dalam hidupnya.

Gola Gong

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Bertrand Russell

God is the Unique, and he is so perfect that he does not resemble any of the things that exist or any of the things that do not; you cannot describe him using your human intelligence, as if he were someone who becomes angry if you are bad or worries about you out of goodness, someone who has a mouth, ears, face, wings, or that is spirit, father or son, not even of himself. Of the Unique you cannot say he is or is not, he embraces all but is nothing; you can name him only through dissimilarity, because it is futile to call him Goodness, Beauty, Wisdom, Amiability, Power, Justice, it would be like calling him Bear, Panther, Serpent, Dragon, or Gryphon, because whatever you say of him you will never express him. God is not body, is not figure, is not form; he does not see, does not hear, does not know disorder and perturbation; he is not soul, intelligence, imagination, opinion, thought, word, number, order, size; he is not equality and is not inequality, is not time and is not eternity; he is a will without purpose. Try to understand, Baudolino: God is a lamp without flame, a flame without fire, a fire without heat, a dark light, a silent rumble, a blind flash, a luminous soot, a ray of his own darkness, a circle that expands concentrating on its own center, a solitary simplicity; he is...is... She paused, seeking an example that would convince them both, she the teacher and he the pupil. He is a space that is not, in which you and I are the same thing, as we are today in this time that doesn't flow.

Umberto Eco, Baudolino

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andre Gide

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Georges Bernanos