"I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness."

“ability atrophies through lack of exercise.”

“Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.143, Canongate Books

“Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.”

“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”

“Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.”

“An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.”

“Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.”

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.”

Source : Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.83, Random House