January 31 Quotes

#1. But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)

Neil Gaiman

#2. As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#3. By year's end, on 31 December, the New York stock exchange has lost more than 31 per cent of its total value since 1 January 2008.

Yanis Varoufakis

#4. I lost my head/when I found my heart.

Jack Penate

#5. First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

William C. Brown

#6. He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though.

Shawn Marion

#7. He is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.

Martha N. Beck

#8. You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Michael Franti

#9. It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

Veronica Roth

#10. You're all I've got, Luce. I'll do anything not to lose you," he said, his scar pinching into his cheek. "Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it.

Nicole Williams

#11. But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Alan Watts

#12. Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Elon Musk

#13. So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Peter Singer