These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Everyone has a plan… until they get hit.
In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
An optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Most use technology to define the function. We use function to drive the technology.
People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
There’s nothing like setting a goal and accomplishing it. The road to achieve that goal is never straight. It has twists and turns, and at times you feel like you can’t pull it off. When you finally accomplish that goal, you feel a sense of accomplishment and self-worth that really can’t be beat.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
The biggest risk in innovation lies in sticking too closely to your plans.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You will then have to catch up with them.
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