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Hi I’m Warren
Let me tell you, I’m a really smart guy. My fingers are long and beautiful. I love the poorly educated. I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things. I have the best words. I’m also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs. I’m a very stable genius. It is what it is.*

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I love great quotes. I’ve been collecting these over the years…

Dictators love chaos because they can respond much more quickly than democracies. Garry Kasparov

…we live in a culture where how little sleep we get is like a badge of honor that somehow shows our work ethic and dedication. But what it really shows is just a profound failure of self-respect. Maria Popova

I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance. Unknown via @MarieForleo

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan

The wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi

Your outlook on life is a direct reflection of how much you like yourself. As seen on a Lululemon or some such bag

Regret is about living in the past. Anxiety comes from living in the future. Robert del Prado

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

The danger we are in is because a small group of ultrarich and powerful people are terrified of what would happen if we all came together across our differences and demanded the world we deserve. Anand Giridharadas

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a happy dream, and tomorrow a vision of hope. Look therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life. Sanskrit poem

Small talk is the tax that God exacted for the privilege of human speech. Katherine Wu

We all have much more time than we think we do; we just fill it with lots of scrolling. Anonymous

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

I may not remember what you said but I remember how it made me feel. Maya Angelou

Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider! George Carlin

Great design comes from dictators, not democracies. Cordell Ratzlaff

When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple…just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. Ron Johnson, Apple Computer

If you can be happy that others are happy, you will always be happy. Dalai Lama

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. Timothy Leary

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. Robin Williams

There is a time when panic is the appropriate response. Eugene Kleiner

Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine. Erich Fromm

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Sir Winston Churchill

In my life I’ve learned nobody sounds more confident than a moron. Howard Stern

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa

You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it. Upton Sinclair

It’s easier to critique a thing than to make a thing. Marie Forleo

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. EE Cummings

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo

Anger directed toward anyone is just frustrated expectations. Bronnie Ware

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. Rumi

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

By and large talent is in such short supply, mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. Charles Saatchi

I will live as long as someone has a memory of me. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter. Leroy “Satchel” Paige

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them. Seneca

Proceed as if success is inevitable. Unknown

At some level, ‘this might not work’ is at the heart of all important projects, of everything new and worth doing. Seth Godin

O, let America be America again—The land that never has been yet—And yet must be—the land where every man is free. Langston Hughes “Let America Be America Again”

If I seem unusually clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. Alan Greenspan

The creation and management of the customer experience is the only thing that makes you relevant. Kyle Lacy

Every time we automate a process in our lives, we trade a piece of consciousness away for a piece of convenience. Adam Baker, Man vs Debt blog

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Albert Einstein

This place where you are right now God circled on a map for you. Wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move Against the earth and the sky, The Beloved has bowed there – Our Beloved has bowed there knowing You were coming. Hafez

If you can’t see God in all, then you can’t see God at all. Yogi Bhajan

A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better. Richard Branson

I didn’t have time to write a short letter so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain

If it weren’t for the people…always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t for them, the world would be an engineer’s paradise. Kurt Vonnegut

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark. Joni Mitchell

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. Dan Quayle

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than the dead calmness of inaction. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Gandhi

What they call talent is nothing more than the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

There are two types of people in the world – those who walk into a room and say “Here I am!”. And those who walk into a room and say “There you are!”. Ed Mylett

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller

The fish don’t just jump in the boat. Tom Brady

Every successful person I know starts before they feel ready! Marie Forleo

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions. Robin Sharma

Unbridled capitalism is the dung of the devil. Pope Francis

Recognize the other person is you. Yogi Bhajan

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we do not suffer anymore. Thich Nhât Hańh

Most of what they call socializing comes down to individuals seeking their own individual gratification in close proximity. Jessica Wildfire

Free thinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking: where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. Leo Tolstoy

Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness hasn’t given enough away. Alex Hormozi

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. Leo Buscaglia

If it tastes like liberation, it must be a good direction. Pamela Slim

You work for others for the illusion of security. You work for yourself for the illusion of freedom. Unknown

As a business owner, you don’t have a job description; you have a responsibility to a vision. Tara Gentile

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

The audience doesn’t know what it wants. The audience only knows what’s come before. Rick Rubin

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles and they can become your blessings. Author Unknown

No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future. author unknown

It is not necessary to try and get rid of fear in order to succeed. T Harv Eker

A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves. Lao Tzu

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda

‘If you stay in the game long enough, good luck tends to return. But if you get knocked out you’ll never have the chance to be lucky again. Luck favors the persistent, but you can persist only if you survive. Jim Collins, “Great By Choice”

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness. Bruce Lee

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken

When the world says, Give up,When the world says, Give up, Hope whispers, Try it one more time. Author Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to face it. Anonymous

Pay attention to what you pay attention to if you want to know what to do with your life. Amy Krouse Rosenthal

To damage the earth is to damage your children. Wendell Berry

There are dreams (good), fantasies (not good) and reality (the worst). Jonathan Kaplan, Founder of Flip Video

Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. Arthur Daley

Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions; your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. Sam Keen

The average man doesn’t want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. H.L. Mencken

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago…had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Henry Ellis

Most things in childhood are caught, not taught. Ed Mylett

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I was twenty, I worried what everyone thought of me. When I turned forty, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me. And then I made it to sixty, and I realized no one was ever thinking of me. Bob Hope

You don’t get things in life because you think you deserve them. You get things in life because you fight for them. Ed Mylett

Sometimes those who are hardest to love are the ones who need love the most. Lucas Matazzaro

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that’s how I look at my life. I will be better as a golfer, I will be better as a person, I will be better as a father, I will be a better husband, I will be better as a friend. That’s the beauty of tomorrow. There is no such thing as a setback. – Tiger WoodsThe lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better. Tiger Woods

What we do not know still far outweighs what we do. Better yet, it always will. Mark Morford

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley

I’m disappointed that we didn’t win tonight, but at the end of the season, I want my guys to either be crying because we’ve lost or crying because we’ve just won. And it shows that if you’re not doing one of those, that means you never really became a team. It was never really that important. Coach Mike Krzyzewski

Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? Jim Rohn

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. Wendell Berry

Those who pule loudest against all the various indiscretions and aberrations in the human animal are often the same ones who crave it the most. Mark Morford

Thought is the universal creator of all conditions and of all life, and everything that has been, everything that now is, and everything that ever will be, has been, is, or will be preceded by thought. Thought is the one motive power of all action, growth or progression. Elizabeth Duress

The joy of living is always available to us. Jon Batiste

If I were less concerned with you I should simply say it is very good. Samuel Beckett on critique of a friend’s work

We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein

We (say we) want equality but we don’t want to give anything up for that, which means we don’t really want equality. Nikole Hannah-Jones

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Marianne Williamson

…perception leads reality and if you are going to create a reality you have to be able to create the perception. John Sculley

It is preoccupation with possessions more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell

The abscence of conflict is not harmony, it’s apathy. Adam Grant

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. Denis Waitley

Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. Chuck Close

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. Wu Men

You won’t find reasonable men on top of tall mountains. Hunter S. Thompson

Don’t believe everything you feel. from Enneagram test

Manifesting is not about attracting what you want. Manifesting is an awareness and an understanding that you attract what you are. Wayne Dyer

Trust those who seek the truth. Doubt those who say they’ve found it. As heard on some TV show

What happened with Facebook? It used to be where you went to see who got fat from high school. I never the though the entire world would be getting their political news from it. Howard Stern

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein

If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. James Madison

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. Fred Rogers

Volunteering is for suckers. Did you know that so called ‘Volunteers’ don’t even get paid?!? Homer Simpson

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Raymond Chandler

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Gandhi

The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both. Lao-Tzu

On the one hand, people want to maintain a positive self-image of being caring, intelligent, deeply empathetic individuals. On the other hand, all that compassion and intelligence evaporates at the first sign of inconvenience. Jessica Wildfire

Trust is the stacking of small moments over time, something that cannot be summoned with a command. There are either marbles in the jar or there are not. Brene Brown

How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight? Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. Thich Nhat Hanh

To think too much is a disease. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Modern-day conservatism, especially the Republican Party, functions primarily as a protection racket for the fragile egos of mediocre white men. Amanda Marcotte

The reason people don’t get what they want is because they don’t know what they want. T. Harv Ecker

Hang out with weird and thou shalt become more weird. Hang out with dull and thou shalt become more dull. Tom Peters

You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car! Homer Simpson

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. Audrey Hepburn

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I am not strange, I am just not normal. Salvador Dali

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. Rex Dean Villena

If we speak the truth fearlessly, we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things. Lucy Stone

I will become more prosperous to the degree that I am able to add value to somebody’s life. Karen Northrup

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. Author unknown

How you do anything is how you do everything. Winston, from John Wick 4

We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. Anonymous

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. Gandhi

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow – it empties today of its strength. Corrie Ten Boom

Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore? Marcus Aurelius

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. Hunter S Thompson

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it…the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and the growth of our soul. Steven Pressfield

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. Nido Qubein

Facts are stubborn things. John Adams

Start before you’re ready. Marie Forleo

I don’t recommend asking for what you can have, or even for what you can give, nearly as much as I recommend asking for what else you can know. Because there is always more you can know, and knowing it will radically increase all you can have and give. The Universe

If you want to become an overnight success, spend a decade building your skills first. Steve Pavlina, “How to Make Money From Your Art”

The only meaningful interpretation of any religious teaching is to honor the divine within ourselves and love the divine in one another. Russell Brand, Revolution

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Tom Waits

Routine is one of the most powerful tools for removing obstacles. Without routine, the pull of the nonessential distractions will overpower us. Greg McKeown

The world is divided into two types of people: jackhammers and hummingbirds. Elizabeth Gilbert

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me. Steve Jobs

Everyone loves beauty. Not just beauty in terms of appearance, but also in how we live, how we care about society, how we look after one another — this is all beauty. Victor Kai Wang

Do you ever pause and gasp? Do you ever take a breath and realize it’s just a vast and staggering continuum of energy pouring through, that we’re just here for a tiny eyeblink glimpse of it, barely tasting a drop of an orgiastic sundae? You do? I’m happy to hear it. Because many, if not most, people don’t. Mark Morford

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare

Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. African Proverb

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. Emerson

The closer to power people get, the bigger the fucking grift. Danielle Moody

The artist is more important than the art. Leroy Nieman

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own — for the children, and the children yet unborn. Rod Serling

It is by forgiving that we are forgiven. St Francis Prayer

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. Nassim N Taleb

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler, British poet (1613 – 1680)

Primitive societies live by the Rule of Might, and the strong prevail. Advanced societies live by the Rule of Law, and the privileged prevail. Enlightened societies live by the Rule of Love, and everyone is lifted higher. The Universe

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop people who don’t want it badly enough. Randy Pausch

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. Sir William Osler

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W.B. Yeats

The absence of information is filled with dirt. Anonymous

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain. Buddhist saint Shantideva

If you want more creativity, hire people who demonstrate creativity. Do not expect to magically graft it onto people you hired for their rigid conservatism. Scott Berkun

I have to make sure I don’t engage in conversations with people who don’t abide by the rules of evidence. Dr. Carl Hart

The universal longing for heaven is not about immortality so much as the wish for a world in which everyone is always kind. Susan Cain

I am not like other people. Other people are like other people. Charles Bukowksi

Until then may I too abide to dispel the misery of the world. Buddhist saint Shantideva

The most important part of any business, product, or invention is that it must solve a real need and a real problem. Observe the world around you – everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do – solve a real problem and the world is yours. Aaron Patzer (founder of Mint.com)

The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money. Trevor Noah

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Gandhi

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat. Steve Jobs

Logic is not the way to answer these issues: human behavior is the key. Avoid the engineer’s and economist’s fallacy: don’t reason your way to a solution — observe real people. We have to take human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be. Don Norman

I define work this way — if you’d rather be doing something else, then you are working. Fred Gratzon

The quality of your user’s experience is intricately tied to your designer’s experience. Aletheia Delivre

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you’ll know exactly what to do. Unknown

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Adolf Hitler

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. Mary Oliver

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are made for. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb, than halfway up one you don’t. Jim, quoted by Pam, The Office

My richness consists not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. J. Brotherton

Our inventions are likely to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. Henry David Thoreau

There are three things people are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. R.D. Laing

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei

People are waiting to be led. Seth Godin

I am not different from you. I am different like you. Dr Laraine Kaminsky

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. Charles Bukowski

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin

What does it mean if it all means nothing? Lord Huron

Press on. 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. Calvin Coolidge

Too many companies eventually die a death of modest aspirations. A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin, Playing to Win

I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My Nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight. part of the Navy SEAL creed

Very few things matter much, and most things don’t matter at all. John Cleese

We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time. Mark Nepo

Age is not the enemy. Stagnation is the enemy. Complacency is the enemy. Stasis is the enemy. Twyla Tharp

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. Orson Welles

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your reason and your own common sense. Lao Tzu

I have never let school interfere with my education. Mark Twain

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 – 1986)

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac

There’s a myth in art (and business) that everything you do must be new and different. Just put the old ideas through your unique soul and what you produce will be different enough. Laura George

You can have more decisions than decision-makers, but if you have more decision-makers than decisions, that’s when you run into problems. James Everingham, Head of Engineering Instagram

The eyes see and the ears hear what the brain is looking for. Dan Sullivan

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Wendell Phillips et al

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 – 1986)

It’s not about getting it right. It’s about doing it so many times that you can’t get it wrong. Cheer

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. Martin Luther King Jr.

There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots. Despair.com 2007 calendar

Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn

I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it. Thomas Edison

Art is how you sell it. Rick Paras

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. Robert Louis Stevenson

Your energy is contagious. So think about what you want people to catch from you. Marie Forleo

We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. Charles Bukowski

Imagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines everything we know, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Albert Einstein

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. Bertrand Russell, How to Grow Old

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck

Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin Roosevelt

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are. Satchel Paige

The mind is it’s own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven. Milton

Very often when we talk about the skill of ‘productivity’ what we are really talking about is ‘self-control’. James Shelley

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates

…my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Igor Stravinsky

Your secret sense that there is far more to you than has yet been revealed is true; and your secret fear that you are nothing and nobody is also true. Realize how both are true simultaneously, and you are free. Chris Wallis

No. Rosa Parks

There is no benefit in wrestling with pigs. You get dirty, and the pigs enjoy it. George Bernard Shaw

People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing. Trevor Noah

If you believe you can, or if you believe you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Thomas Merton

The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty. Author Unknown

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. Thomas Watson

The smallest kernel of self-doubt turns the mind to popcorn under pressure. Kevin Cook

… In bureaucracies many people have the authority to say no, not the authority to say yes. So you end up with products with compromises. John Sculley

Thirty spokes meet in the hub, though the space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, though the space inside them is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, though the space within them is the essence of the house. Japanese poem

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck. Dennis Lehane

It is a sin to judge any man by his post. St. Augustine

Fear often disguises itself as something else – anger or dislike or derision. Fear can be as tricky as a virus, and just as contagious. It can infect you without your being fully aware of it. It can change the makeup of your personality and, if you let it, end up shaping the contours of your world. Theresa MacPhail

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare

Before you speak, let your words pass through these three gates: At the first gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’ At the second gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it necessary?’ At the third gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it kind?’ Sufi

He who toots his own horn can control the volume. Ashley Longshore

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H.L. Mencken

Progress depends on people thinking independently and following their curiosity as far as they can, including doing things others around them refuse to try. Scott Berkun

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Sir Cecil Beaton

Every day is a new life to a wise man. Unknown

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford

Is your day by design or by default? J.D. Meier

Comparison is the thief of joy. John Cena

Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order. Patrick Winston

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. Simon Sinek (from TED talk)

I want leaders to decouple ambition with facetime. Morra Aarons-Mele

Priorities equal prosperity. Michelle Singletary

The deepest vocational question is not What ought I to do with my life? It is the more elemental and demanding ‘Who am I? What is my nature?’ Parker J. Palmer

Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it. Jesse Owens

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles and they can become your blessings. Author Unknown

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up. Marilyn Greist

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. Kim Goodwin

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. Scott Cook

Our country has been programmed to see white violence as protest and black protest as violence. Brittney Cooper

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

If the grass looks greener on the other side, water your own grass more. Brad Smith, CEO Intuit

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features. Steve Jobs

The problem with corporate America is that it’s filled with people whose egos vastly outweigh their talent. John Lederer

When you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up on you. Randy Pausch relating quote from a football coach

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. Seneca

Next time you’re afraid to share ideas, remember someone once said in a meeting let’s make a movie about a tornado full of sharks. As seen on Facebook

Sometimes the most important things in life are the least urgent. Brian Chesky

Aspire to inspire before you expire. Rudy Hellenschmidt, my 5th and 6th grade teacher

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. Martin Luther King

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in awhile, you don’t do things right once in awhile, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi

The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes. Marcel Proust

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp

Uncertainty is the essence of life, and it fuels opportunity. Tina Seelig, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”

I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. Ed Sheeran

Some people die at 25 but aren’t buried until 75. Ben Franklin

The greatest threat to American democracy is our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of party and in pursuit of power. Michael Bloomberg

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

Beware always of the loudmouth taking advantage of the situation and appealing to a crowd’s meanest nature. Jimmy Breslin on Donald Trump 1989

The future’s not what it used to be. Yogi Berra

Experience and reward and glory are meaningless unless you’re open and present with the people you share them with in the moment. Patton Oswalt

We will find a way. Or make one. Hannibal Barca, 247 BC – 182 BC

The craftsman is proud of what he has made, and cherishes it, while the consumer discards things that are perfectly serviceable in his restless pursuit of the new. Richard Sennett, The Culture of the new Capitalism

‘Calling’ isn’t our job, it’s what we bring to our job. Richard J. Leider

Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face. Mike Tyson

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry Truman

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive. Author Unknown

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde

Vulnerability is the key to connecting with people. Cory Huff

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell

Just because the tide is out doesn’t mean there’s less water in the ocean. Seth Godin

Great minds overthink alike. Anonymous

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Ian McLaren

There are more scary things inside than outside. Toni Morrison

All designers fail all the time…on purpose. Scott Berkun

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. Goethe

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence. Duane Elgin

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. Paul Fix, actor

Laws are like spiderwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened. Mark Twain

Although many aspects of our collective endeavor are open for discussion, choice of mountain is not among them. J. Richard Hackman, Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Teddy Roosevelt

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. Steve Jobs

Toughness on issues, tenderness with people. Doug Conant, former Campbells Soup CEO

Life is full of pain. The suffering is optional. Tallulah Bankhead

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. General Eric Shinseki

Life will always be hard. And life will always be beautiful. Cheryl Strayed

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Martin Luther King

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch

It’s easier to say “I don’t like something” than “I’m scared of something”. Thomas Smithyman

Everything great I’ve done I’ve had to have the courage at some point in the process to start over and rethink it. Steve Jobs

Monogamy is the only thing humans have invented that requires perfection as its measure of success. Dan Savage

The gift is useless if the writer doesn’t have the muscles of persistence, patience, and the ability to withstand the indignities and rejection inherent in the life of any artist. Gifts are nothing without endurability. Dani Shapiro

Better to speak and be thought a fool than to remain silent and never be thought about at all. Jeremy Mohler

There are thousands and thousands of people out there living lives of quiet, screaming desperation, who work long, hard hours, at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like. Nigel Marsh

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin

America is one of the few countries in the world where nobody knows what enough is and what that means. Trevor Noah

The best managers are shit umbrellas, not shit funnels. William Bernhard

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus

Those who do not know how to fight worry, die young. Dr Alexis Carrel (Nobel prize winner in medicine)

The purpose of school is to get people to fit in. And the reason we want people to fit in is so we can ignore them. Seth Godin

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. Pascal

The key to making money, and therefore living a life of less stress, is to cause someone to joyfully give you money in exchange for something that they perceive to be of greater value than the money they gave you. Frank Kern, from The Education of Millionaires

A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality – and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing – it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavoured dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street. George Carlin

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. Kierkegaard

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Fear isn’t real. It’s a product of our thoughts . Danger is very real but fear is a choice. After Earth

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive. Author Unknown

As you go the way of life, you will come to a great chasm. Jump. It is not as far as you think. Native American saying

My take on people: A few of us are shining lights of love. Some of us are self-serving, power-hungry, mean pieces of shit. Most of us want to do the right thing. All of us can do better. Warren Croce

Life is insane. This planet that we’re on, it’s ridiculous, nothing works, and nobody knows what they’re doing. John Cleese

If you want to avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. Aristotle

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration. Bill Duke

Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. Unknown U-boat Commander

Everybody knows that fear of failure can sometimes get in the way. But fear of success often goes unnoticed, and it can be an even bigger obstacle. Mark Twain

…don’t kiss an ass if it’s in the process of shitting on you. ShitMyDadSays

Career and purpose don’t have to be the same thing. It’s best if they’re aligned but it’s not necessary. Trevor Blake

Every single person can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

In an art form, you start from scratch all the time. You gain a little technique over the years. But inspirationally – that’s in the lap of the gods. If I’m lucky, I get a great inspiration and it’s a good film. If I’m not lucky, I get less inspired, and it’s not such a good film. Woody Allen

The most blessed people in America are the least patriotic. Scott Galloway

We have to consider reality eventually, but it’s a lousy place to start. Kim Goodwin

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. Alfred A. Montapert

The world is divided into people who wait for others to give them permission to do the things they want to do and people who grant themselves permission. Tina Seelig, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso

This is my simple religion.There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama

Installing software is like a first date: if it can’t be polite, smart, and generous, what should I expect later? Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants

Don’t try to prove your solution is right, prove you have the right solution. Mat Winegarden

I wouldn’t trust a painter unless I thought he or she was crazy in some way. And it always shows in the work. Brice Marden

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you’re just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you. Rick Sanchez

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw

I haven’t failed. I’ve simply found 10,000 ways that do not work. Thomas Edison

Empathy is not just about walking in another’s shoes…first you must remove your own shoes. Indian proverb

Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. Lao Tzu

If you obey all the rules you miss all tIf tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. James Madison

Everything great you do happens in the details. Ron Johnson, Apple Computer

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford

My take on people

A few of us
are shining lights of love.

Some of us
are self-serving, power-hungry, mean pieces of shit.

Most of us
want to do the right thing.

All of us
can do better.

My personal values

Kindness
You’ve heard the expression “namaste” – it literally means “I bow to you”, and more broadly “I honor the light within myself and all others.” Part of honoring the light is being kind to both oneself and all others. (I realize this conflicts somewhat with item two above, BUT I’M WORKING ON IT, REALLY!)

Honesty
We can’t really have any meaningful connection without honesty.

Reliability
I know it sounds like something one would value in a machine, but I believe that being reliable is more than doing what’s expected – it’s being there whenever you are needed.

Laughter
Imagine life without laughter. It would be a very grim existence. I love making people laugh and when people make me laugh. I love laughing with people. It’s strong medicine.

Health
We inhabit our bodies for a short time. I believe we should honor our body and mind as they move us through life by treating them well. Self care is not selfish.

 

I like lists

BRINGS HAPPINESS

  • Seeing the people I love happy
  • Golf
  • Yoga
  • Art
  • Jackie
  • My sons
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Travel (after the airplane part)
  • Creating/Making/Designing
  • Volunteering
  • Great food
  • Hiking
  • The ocean
  • My car
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Learning
  • Vegetable gardening
  • Bodysurfing
  • Scuba diving with my family
  • My tattoos
  • The Price is Right – Showcase round
  • Drumming
  • Ice cream

DOES NOT BRING HAPPINESS

  • Waiting in line
  • Airplane travel
  • Traffic, (usually caused by)…
  • Distracted drivers
  • Inefficiency
  • People who have an opinion about everything
  • Micromanagers
  • Mosquitoes
  • Leafblowers
  • Fascists

WISH I COULD’VE

  • Seen The Allman Brothers (original version with Duane) in concert
  • Met Picasso
  • Known Frank Browne better
  • Had my grandmother Rose around a lot longer
  • Been a stay at home dad (though my kids are better off that I wasn’t!)

THINGS THAT I WANT TO DO

  • Go on a silent retreat
  • Travel to more countries (in no particular order):
    • New Zealand
    • India
    • Vietnam
    • Indonesia
    • Costa Rica
    • Ecuador
    • Fiji
    • Japan
  • Live outside the U.S.
  • Be a grandparent
  • Be a full time artist
  • Teach college-level design
  • Walk across England
  • Truly dance like nobody’s watching
Pecha kucha on my sports card collection
PechKucha
My name as colors
Warren as colors

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My name viewed from space
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Some of many cultural influences
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mister Rogers
Pratt Institute
Nirvana
Paul Rand
Notorious BIG
yoga
Star Trek
Howard Stern
Abbot and Costello
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Van Morrison
Bob Marley
Quiet by Susan Cain
Tristan Jones - The Incredible Voyage
Steve Hagen - Meditation Now or Never
The Avengers
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
Grizzly Adams
Bugs Bunny

*A mashup of quotes from The Orange Monster (aka Seditionist, aka Fascist, aka Racist, aka Rapist, aka Cult Leader, aka David Dennison, aka Convicted Felon, aka 45th POTUS)