"You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points."

-- Richard Branson

#Running Quotes #Fall Quotes #Successful Quotes

“To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.”
“There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn't. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that's what men do.”
“The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.”

Source : James Galvin (2014). “The Meadow”, p.4, Holt Paperbacks
“I always think 12 times before saying anything.”
“I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.”
“The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.”
“Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.”

Source : Bruce Pandolfini (2008). “Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

You may also like: