'cos not everything
needs a TED talk

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

2 August

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

1 August

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

Leo Tolstoy

31 July

Always deliver more than expected.

Larry Page

30 July

I came I saw I conquered.

Julius Caesar

29 July

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

Abraham Lincoln

28 July

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

27 July

Done is better than perfect.

Sheryl Sandberg

26 July

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr

25 July

I will not be triumphed over.

Cleopatra

24 July

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

23 July

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

22 July

You always hear the phrase money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness.

Sergey Brin

21 July

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafez

20 July

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.

Michael Dell

19 July

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

Charles Darwin

18 July

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

17 July

People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.

Simon Sinek

16 July

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 July

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Seneca

14 July

Genius is one percent inspiration ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison