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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
― Rumi

“Great mathematicians are born with a brain fundamentally different from ours. We may as well be clear about the first one: no, mathematicians don’t think logically. It is in fact utterly impossible to think logically. Logic doesn’t help at all with thinking. We shall see later on what it is used for.”
― David Bessis, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

“One of the best advertising people ever was Carl Ally. He said the true creative person wants to be a know-it-all. They want to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, modern manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and lean hog futures. Because they never know when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six years down the road, but they know it will happen.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“According to the laws of aerodynamics the bumblebee can’t fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it just carries on flying around.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“No wonder men had more power. They had more power because they didn’t ask anyone else’s permission. They just went ahead and did what they wanted. And they weren’t as scared of being wrong as the women were. For them, getting the result was more important than being right.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“The product creates the experience. The experience creates the reputation. The reputation creates the brand.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“Orson Welles summed it up best in The Third Man. ‘In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“I also like what Voltaire said about the English. ‘The English are like their own beer: the dregs are at the bottom, the top is nothing but froth, but the middle is quite excellent.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“Geffen is now worth around $6 billion.

Not by being better, or tougher, or faster, or smarter, or richer, or better educated than other people.

Not by trying to beat other people at their own game.
But by looking at other people and thinking, ‘What aren’t they doing?”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“Nothing can harm a man so much as his own thoughts untamed.”
― Dave Trott, One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking

“If you avoid the rejection, you avoid the opportunity.”
― Dave Trott, Predatory Thinking: A Masterclass in Out-thinking the Competition

“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”
― Dave Trott, Predatory Thinking: A Masterclass in Out-thinking the Competition

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“You can have what you want, or you can have your reasons for not having it.’

Jack Brabham chose not to have his reasons.
He did it all by being unreasonable.”
― Dave Trott , One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking