'cos not everything
needs a TED talk

sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

2 November

I will not be triumphed over.

Cleopatra

1 November

It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea can obscure the mind.

Charles Sanders Peirce

31 October

It is not the strongest of the species that survives but the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

30 October

Always deliver more than expected.

Larry Page

29 October

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

28 October

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

27 October

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

26 October

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

25 October

It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

24 October

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Voltaire

23 October

Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue based on strength of character.

Baruch Spinoza

22 October

One is not born but rather becomes a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

21 October

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

20 October

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

19 October

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

18 October

Genius is one percent inspiration ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

17 October

Done is better than perfect.

Sheryl Sandberg

16 October

Each man longs to pursue his dream. Each man is tortured by this dream. But the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life. Man cannot allow himself to leave it behind.

Kentaro Miura

15 October

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

14 October

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln