Tony Williams > Tony's Quotes

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”
― John Cage

“One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.”
― Albert Einstein

“Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil

“This is where the Law of Serendipity comes to play: Lady Luck favors the one who tries.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don’t believe in that. So I’m not the most adored person on the face of the earth. You have to know this. There are a lot of people who don’t like me at all, I’m very sure of that. But I wasn’t put on earth to be liked. I have my own reasons for being and my own sense of what is important and what isn’t, and I’m not going to change that.”
― Lauren Bacall

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
― Isaac Newton

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
― Isaac Newton

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing”
― Camille Pissarro

“The whole world is beautiful, the art is in the seeing.”
― Camille Pissarro

“We are on dangerous ground right now, because of our secrets and our lies. They’re practically what defines us. When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”
― HBO, Chernobyl