"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts."

-- Larry Ellison

#Inspirational Quotes #Success Quotes #Motivation Quotes

“Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.”
“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
“Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.”
“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
“Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.”
“There is not in sight any source of energy that would be a fair start toward that which would be necessary to get us beyond the gravitative control of the earth.”

Source : Forest Ray Moulton (1935). “Consider the Heavens”
“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.”
“Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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