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“Albert Einstein once said, “Sit with a beautiful woman for an hour and it seems like a minute, sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour—that’s relativity.”
― Richard Wiseman, Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things

“What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Invictus

“Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― André Gide

“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”
― John Waters, Role Models

“Pretend to be something you’re not until you are—fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them.”
― austin kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Copying is about reverse-engineering.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Salvador Dalí

“if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.”
― Wilson Mizner

“You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best—write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career:”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Keep all your passions in your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“You’ll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative