Robert Cooper > Robert's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
― Bruce Lee

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

“The fool is the precursor to the savior.”
― Carl Jung

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― Carl Jung

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
― Elon Musk

“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
― Elon Musk

“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”
― Elon Musk

“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”
― Elon Musk

“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”
― Elon Musk

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway”
― Walt Disney Company

“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”
― Walt Disney