Famous Aphorism Quotes

#1. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Gary Hamel

#2. You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Gerald Brenan

#3. The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live as warriors - their willingness to die for the sake of what they believe in - is quite shocking to us, and it's fascinating to see.

Linus Roache

#4. Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Charles Dickens

#5. We all come in with baggage. We all come in trying to find our way. We all come in with broken edges.

Jefferson Bethke

#6. One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge men's consciousness.

Paulo Freire

#7. Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

John Updike

#8. Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.

Eric Thomas

#9. The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

James Boswell

#10. Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.

Ellen J. Barrier

#11. People who say things like 'may all your dreams come true' should try living in one for five minutes.

Terry Pratchett