Favourite quotes

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Love your job but don’t love your company, because you may not know when your company stops loving you!

Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

African Proverb

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.

Al Ries

È meglio essere primi che meglio degli altri.

Albert Einstein9 quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count really count.

Senza crisi non ci sono sfide, senza sfide la vita è una routine, una lenta agonia.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Alexander Den Heijer

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

Alison Bechdel

Whatever we say, we are always talking about ourselves.

Alphonse Allais

Diciamo di ammazzare il tempo come se, purtroppo, non fosse il tempo ad ammazzare noi.

Amelia Earhart

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Amy Poehler

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

Anaïs Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

André Gide

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

Andrej Karpathy

You can outsource your thinking, but you cannot outsource your understanding.

Andrew Weinreich

When you stop moving, the music stops.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Anonim*

Meglio vivere d’istanti e d’istinti che distanti e distinti.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

The most important things in life aren’t things.

Antistene

Come il ferro è consumato dalla ruggine, così gli invidiosi sono consumati dalla loro stessa passione.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery2 quotes

A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Aristotle2 quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Austin Kleon3 quotes

Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn.

Quit picking fights and go make something!

Your work is something you do, not who you are.

Ben Chestnut

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Franklin2 quotes

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Bible

…there is nothing new under the sun.

Bill Cosby2 quotes

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Non lo so quale sia la chiave del successo, ma la chiave per il fallimento è nel cercare di accontentare tutti.

Bruce Lee

La conoscenza non è sufficiente, dobbiamo applicarla. La volontà non è abbastanza, dobbiamo agire.

Bruce Sterling

The future is a journey, not a destination.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

Chinese Proverb

When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.

Ciputra

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realisation.

Claude Debussy

Music is the space between the notes.

Clayton Christensen

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

Confucius

Even the strongest man cannot lift himself up.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Dalai Lama

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

David Allen3 quotes

Gran parte dello stress deriva da impegni – presi con se stessi o con gli altri – gestiti in modo non adeguato.

You can do anything, but not everything.

You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.

Dick Cavett

Finché la gente accetterà la spazzatura, sarà redditizio venderla.

Dieter Rams

Good design is as little design as possible.

Donald A. Norman2 quotes

Don’t criticize unless you can do better.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Elbert Hubbard

Work to become, not to acquire.

Émile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.

Enid Blyton

Leave something for someone but don’t leave someone for something.

Eric Hoffer

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher2 quotes

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Eugene Delacroix

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Frank Zappa

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Friedrich Nietzsche2 quotes

Dovete andare fieri del vostro nemico; allora i successi del vostro nemico saranno anche i vostri successi.

Make yourself become who you are.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is difficult to judge beauty: beauty is an enigma.

George Pólya

If you can’t solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.

George Shine

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

Grace Hopper2 quotes

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Life is too short to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again.

Greek Proverb

The beginning is the half of every action.

Gretchen Rubin4 quotes

The days are long, but the years are short.

The days are long, but the years are short.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harrington Emerson

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Harry S. Truman

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

Henry David Thoreau2 quotes

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Herbert A. Simon

…a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…

Intercom

It’s easier to make things people want, than it is to make people want things.

James De La Vega

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

Japanese Proverb2 quotes

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

If you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station; the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be.

Jay O’Callahan3 quotes

If our eyes are always looking for weakness, we begin to lose the intuition to notice the beauty.

If our eyes are always looking for weakness, we begin to lose the intuition to notice the beauty.

If our eyes are always looking for weakness, we begin to lose the intuition to notice the beauty.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people.

Jeff Bezos

Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Jeff Weiner

When you are tired of saying it, they are starting to hear it.

Jim Barksdale

The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Joan Didion

I don’t know what I think until I write it down.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

John Archibald Wheeler

As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Coltrane

The real risk is in not changing. I have to feel that I’m after something. If I make money, fine. But I’d rather be striving. It’s the striving, man, it’s that I want.

John Lennon2 quotes

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Maeda2 quotes

Every entrepreneur I have ever met is an artist. They are all forced to become comfortable with failure. And for entrepreneurs, their canvas is their company.

You can only organize something if you understand how it works.

John Wooden

Ciò che conta è quello che impari quando sai già tutto.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Katharine Hepburn

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Kenneth Tynan

A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.

Lao Tzu

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Leigh Michaels

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Lily Tomlin

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To understand is to know what to do.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Mahatma Gandhi2 quotes

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Malcolm X

If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.

Margaret Mead

What people say, what people do, and what people say they do are entirely different things.

Mark Cook

Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem.

Mark Twain

Comparison is the death of joy.

Marty Neumeier

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Maya Angelou

If you get, give. If you learn, teach.

Michael Beirut

The problem contains the solution.

Mike Monteiro

Designer can design a solution to a problem, but they can’t design a solution to a disagreement.

Milton Erickson

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Morpheus

There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Neil Postman

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Neil Young

It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

Nelson Mandela2 quotes

Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Oscar Wilde2 quotes

Everything popular is wrong.

Moderation is a fatal thing… Nothing succeeds like excess.

Pablo Picasso2 quotes

Art is theft.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Patrick Lencioni

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Paul Kenny

Data explains, stories inspire.

Paul Valery

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Peter Drucker3 quotes

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Plato

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Porter Gale

Time is the only resource we have that is nonrenewable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Ray Bradbury

You can’t TRY to do things, you must simply DO them.

Ray Eames

What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.

Richard Feynman

You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

Russian Proverb3 quotes

It’s better to see once than hear a hundred times.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Не имей сто рублей, а имей сто друзей.

Salvador Dalí

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Sankofa

It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.

Seneca

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Shimon Peres2 quotes

When there’s nothing, you can do anything.

You are as great as the cause that you serve and as young as your dreams.

Shunryu Suzuki

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.

Stephen Covey

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen R. Covey

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Steven Johnson

Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.

Steven Wright

Everywhere is a walking distance if you have the time

Thich Nhat Hanh

Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy. Never make decision when you are sad.

Thomas Edison

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Tim O'Reilly

The good life consists in enjoying the creativity of others, and in sharing our own, not just in having our basic needs met.

Tyler Durden

The things you own end up owning you.

Unknown6 quotes

Design is like air, you only notice it when it’s bad.

La motivazione è il carburante del lavoro intellettuale.

The best defense is a good offense.

The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline.

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

View obstacles as opportunities for growth.

Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Voltaire2 quotes

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.

Walter Bagehot

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Warren Buffet2 quotes

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.

Will Rogers

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

William Edwards Deming2 quotes

A true leader does not give orders. A true leader gives explanations.

Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.

William James2 quotes

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Yoda

Always in motion is the future.