'cos not everything
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sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

17 September

You cannot hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.

Epictetus

16 September

I came I saw I conquered.

Julius Caesar

15 September

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

Maya Angelou

14 September

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

13 September

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

Andrew Carnegie

12 September

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Oprah Winfrey

11 September

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

10 September

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

9 September

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

Galileo Galilei

8 September

Make something people want.

Y Combinator

7 September

Know yourself and know your enemy and you will never be defeated.

Sun Tzu

6 September

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

5 September

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Seneca

4 September

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

Kahlil Gibran

3 September

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

Michael Dell

2 September

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Plato

1 September

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

31 August

When you innovate you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.

Larry Ellison

30 August

Nothing is permanent except change.

Heraclitus

29 August

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius