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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #5
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #6
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #7
    Frank Miller
    “The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
    Frank Miller

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #9
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    Stephen King

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    Stephen King

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    Stephen King

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
    Stephen King

  • #15
    Stephen  King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I aim with my eye.

    I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I shoot with my mind.

    I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
    I kill with my heart.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger

  • #18
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #19
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #20
    Kenneth H. Blanchard
    “The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people”
    Ken Blanchard

  • #21
    Kenneth H. Blanchard
    “None of us is as smart as all of us”
    Ken Blanchard

  • #22
    Max Brooks
    “Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
    Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

  • #23
    Max Brooks
    “Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
    Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

  • #24
    Max Brooks
    “1. Organize before they rise!
    2. They feel no fear, why should you?
    3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
    4. Blades don't need reloading.
    5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
    6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
    7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
    8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
    9. No place is safe, only safer.
    10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.”
    Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

  • #25
    Atul Gawande
    “Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
    Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

  • #26
    Atul Gawande
    “Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.”
    Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

  • #27
    Atul Gawande
    “Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.”
    Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

  • #28
    Atul Gawande
    “We recruit for attitude and train for skill,”
    Atul Gawande

  • #29
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #30
    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    Isaac Asimov



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