Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 33 “ Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. ” ―  Austin Kleon   ( Steal Like an Artist )     More quotes  from  Steal Like an Artist :      “ In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. ”       “ You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. ”   “ Don’t worry about doing research. Just search. ”   “ When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. ”   “ Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts. ”        

Quote of the Week 32 “ If you are persistent, you will get it.  If you are consistent, you will keep it. ” ― Harvey Mackay  ( Mackay's Moral )     Extended :   “ If you are persistent, you will get it.  If you are consistent, you will keep it.  If you are grateful, you will attract more of it. ”      

Quote of the Week 31 “ Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer. ” ―  Ziad K. Abdelnour  ( Economic Warfare )     More Abdelnour quotes .   Triggered by the following tweet : Seek respect, not attention. — Mindfulness Thoughts (@Mindfulness_DQ) July 4, 2026

Quote of the Week 30 “ The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are. ” ― Denis Waitley       More Denis Waitley quotes .      

2nd Quote of the Week 25 “ I have reached the State of Enlaughment. ” ― Alan Bipe  

Quote of the Week 24 “The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. ” ― Albert Einstein   Triggered by   François Chollet 's tweet : See also: https://t.co/pYUVXoRwvP — Peter Lipps (@pelimuc) May 29, 2026   For background see:  Einstein on The Essential Feature of Productive Thought , fs.blog,  Farnam Street Media Inc.   (A) The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.  The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be “voluntarily” reproduced and combined. There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above-mentioned elements. But taken from a psychol...

Quote of the Week 19 “ Doubt everything. ” ― Karl Marx   (his motto : " De omnibus dubitandum " by René Descartes ) “ An allem ist zu zweifeln. ” Triggered by the i nscription on the sidewalk of my & his native town  across the street of his  birthplace .

Quote of the Week 11 “ To define is to limit.” ― Oscar Wilde ,  The Picture of Dorian Gray     Full quote : “What are you?" "To define is to limit.”            

Quote of the Week 10 “ To explain is to jam people's thinking.” ― Etel Adnan , Shifting the Silence     Triggered by the exibition " Shifting the Silence. Die Stille verschieben "  at the Lenbachhaus, Munich.

Quote of the Week 8 “ I may not always be right, but I’m never wrong.” ― attributed to  Samuel Goldwyn Triggered by a recent  QuoteInvestigator  review.

Quote of the Week 7 “ Don’t believe everything you think. ” ―  Sidney K. Bennett Triggered by a recent QuoteInvestigator review. Variants: “ Don’t believe everything you think, especially today. ” “ Don’t believe anything you think and only half what you know. ” Related : “ Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ―  Edgar Allan Poe (Short story “ The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether ”)

Quote of the Week 4 “ We both step and do not step into the same river, we both are and are not.” ― Heraclitus Triggered by the reference to a variation of the quote in WDR 5 - Das philosophische Radio Podcast with  Heinz-Michael Bartling: Weisheit und Wandel   (01/05/2026) . Related (see Wikipedia for details): You cannot step into the same river twice Since Plato, Heraclitus's theory of flux has been associated with the metaphor of a flowing river, which cannot be stepped into twice. [ 57 ] [ as ]  This fragment from Heraclitus's writings has survived in three different forms: [ 56 ] "On those who step into the same rivers, different and different waters flow" –  Arius Didymus , quoted in  Stobaeus [ at ] "We both step and do not step into the same river, we both are and are not" –  Heraclitus Homericus ,  Homeric Allegories [ au ] "It is not possible to step into the same river twice" –  Plutarch ,  On the E at Delphi [ av ] The classicis...

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