'cos not everything
needs a TED talk

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

2 March

It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

1 March

If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

28 February

I came I saw I conquered.

Julius Caesar

27 February

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

26 February

Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea. But it’s the people who get out of the shower, towel off, and do something about it that makes the difference.

Nolan Bunshell

25 February

I think therefore I am.

Descartes

24 February

Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

23 February

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

22 February

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

21 February

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

20 February

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

19 February

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

John Stuart Mill

18 February

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hatred cannot drive out hatred only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

17 February

When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Elon Musk

16 February

You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

15 February

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Voltaire

14 February

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

13 February

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

12 February

Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

10 February

Done is better than perfect.

Sheryl Sandberg