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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
― Andy Warhol

“I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”
― Andy Warhol

“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
― Andy Warhol

“In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
― Andy Warhol

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
― Andy Warhol

“I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.”
― Andy Warhol

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”
― Andy Warhol

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”
― Andy Warhol

“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”
― Andy Warhol

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
― Andy Warhol

“The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.”
― Andy Warhol

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
― Andy Warhol

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”
― Andy Warhol

“Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.”
― Andy Warhol

“You know it's ART, when the check clears.”
― Andy Warhol

“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
― Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

“You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“As success drives the need to hire new engineers at a rapid rate, companies neglect to train the new engineers properly. As the engineers are assigned tasks, they figure out how to complete them as best they can. Often this means replicating existing facilities in the architecture, which leads to inconsistencies in the user experience, performance problems, and a general mess. And you thought training was expensive.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers