"Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform."

“We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.”

Source : Eduardo Galeano (2000). “Days and Nights of Love and War”, p.175, Pluto Press

“When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.”

“You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.”

“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”

“I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.”

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”

“We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.”

Source : Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

“Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.”