Aaron > Aaron's Quotes

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“Beware the fury of a patient man”
― Tom Clancy

“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”
― Tom Clancy

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”
― Tom Wolfe

“The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.”
― Mike Davis

“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”
― Daniel Kahneman

“A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
― Adam Smith

“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
― Milton Friedman

“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
― Milton Friedman

“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”
― Milton Friedman

“. . . there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”
― Milton Friedman

“Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? . . . And just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us.”
― Milton Friedman

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler

“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ”
― Alvin Toffler

“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
― Alvin Toffler

“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”
― Aaron Sorkin

“This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.”
― Aaron Sorkin

“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”
― Aaron Sorkin

“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
― Marshall McLuhan

“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”
― Marshall McLuhan