Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 1 " Mission-driven 'assholes': The people who are crazy passionate—and a little crazy.  " ― Tony Fadell , Build Triggered by a recent discussion on LinkedIn . See also: " 4 Types of Assholes " – all of whom I have encountered during my career. Mit ChatGPT erstellt Mission-driven “assholes”: The people who are crazy passionate—and a little crazy. They speak most frankly, trampling the politics of the modern office, and steamroll right over the delicate social order of “how things are done around here.” Much like true assholes, they are neither easygoing nor easy to work with. Unlike true assholes, they care. They give a damn. They listen. They work incredibly hard and push their team to be better—often against their will. They are unrelenting when they know they’re right, but are open to changing their minds and will praise other people’s efforts if they’re genuinely great. A good way to know if you’re working with a mission-driven "ass...

Quote of the Week 52 " You have power over your mind - not outside events.   Realize this, and you will find strength. " ―  Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

Quote of the Week 50 “ The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.” ― Hannah Arendt Triggered by Hannah Arendt 's 50th anniversary of death.

Quote of the Week 48 “ Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” ― Aesop

Quote of the Week 47 “ The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.” ― Theodore Levitt  ( Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition )    Often misattributed to John Sculley or Oscar Wilde  as documented by FALSCHZITATE .

Quote of the Week 46 “ Intention is the father of invention.” ― Alan Bipe   A variation of:   “ Necessity is the mother of invention ” ―  Proverb

Quote of the Week 44 “ Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. ” ―  Jeremy Bentham - An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Triggered by the citation in A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI  (pg. 43) by Max Bennett. Related: “ Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.” ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj “ Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.” ―  Ramana Maharshi

Quote of the Week 43 “ Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt. ” ― Carl Gustav Jung

Quote of the Week 42 “Only one who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. ” ― Miguel de Unamuno   Triggered by the misattribution of a variant of the quote to M.C. Escher : “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. ”

Quote of the Week 41 “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ” ―  Albert Einstein   Triggered by the citation in  A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking (English Edition) by  Jung, Min W. (2023).   Related : “ 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.” ― Albert Einstein  

2nd Quote of the Week 38 “ The danger isn't AI thinking like humans, but humanity thinking like AI.” ― Julian Goldstahl Translated from German AIphorism : “ Wir fürchten nicht die KI, die denkt wie ein Mensch, sondern die Menschheit, die denkt wie eine KI. ” ― attributed to  Julian Goldstahl  by DeepSeek

Quote of the Week 38 “ Worry is like paying interest on a debt you don’t owe.” ― often misattributed to Mark Twain  Related:  Quote of the Week 9 / 2022 " Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength . " ―  Corrie ten Boom

Quote of the Week 35 “ You have your way. I have my way.    As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ― Attributed to  Friedrich Nietzsche While often attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche , the quote is actually a paraphrasing of a statement made by his fictional character Zarathustra in Thus Spoke Zarathustra .  „Das — ist nun mein Weg, — wo ist der eure?“ so antwortete ich Denen, welche mich „nach dem Wege“ fragten. Den Weg nämlich — den giebt es nicht! Also sprach Zarathustra. “ Du hast deinen Weg. Ich habe meinen Weg.   Den Weg, den richtigen Weg und den einzigen Weg gibt es nicht. ” ― Pseudo-Friedrich-Nietzsche-Zitat

Quote of the Week 33 “ No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.” ―  attributed to   Elbert Hubbard   No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one Who crafted this quip: Elbert Hubbard? Mary Sargent Hopkins? Anonymous? https://t.co/3bT2q7GGhI pic.twitter.com/5YuLW5vdSt — Quote Investigator® (@QuoteResearch) August 6, 2025

Quote of the Week 31 “ Talent hits a target no one else can hit.   Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ―   Arthur Schopenhauer “ Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Übrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht einmal zu sehn vermögen. ”   — Arthur Schopenhauer , Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung , Zweiter Band, Ergänzungen zum dritten Buch, Kapitel 31.

Quote of the Week 30 “ There are measures of focus and one of them is how often you say no.” ―   attributed to Steve Jobs See also: Quote of the Week 20 / 2023 "'No' is a complete sentence . " ― Anne Lamott Source:  dailyphilosopher on Instagram

Quote of the Week 29 “ Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” ―   Simone Weil  

Quote of the Week 28 “ Only those who change remain true to themselves.” ― Wolf Biermann “ Nur wer sich ändert, bleibt sich  treu.” ― Wolf Biermann Cited by Wolfgang Niedecken (BAP) last week in Munich.

Quote of the Week 27 “ We don't really want what we think we desire.” ― Slavoj Žižek Triggered by  thephilosophyquote on  Instagram: Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an Ein Beitrag geteilt von Promoting the world through books (@indieauthorshowcase) As quoted on Goodreads  and BigThink : “ We don't really want to get what we think that we want. I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress. You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation. It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream. This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function.  We don't really w...

Quote of the Week 26 “ You can imagine the opposite.” ―  Maurizio Nannucci Triggered by a visit to Lenbachhaus in Munich. Related : Quote of the Week 20 “Everything you can imagine is real.” ―  Pablo Picasso Other themes  of neon texts created by Nannucci : “ All art has been contemporary.” “ Light and beauty are two unquestionable facts.” “ Listen to your eyes.” “ The missing poem ist the poem.” “ Events take time events take space. ” “ In regard to simplicity nothing is defined .” “ Some words different thoughts. ” “I mages are the origin of language .”