Rory Sutherland Quotes

#1. A good scientist (DT quoted Einstein) will acknowledge that more than 50% of scientific breakthroughs are reached through post-rationalised ideas, not through sequential logic.

Rory Sutherland

#2. Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

Rory Sutherland

#3. I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

Sarah Silverman

#4. That's the way of every human catastrophe. The douchebag is nearly indestructible.

Rick Yancey

#5. When you place a value on things like health, love, sex and other things, and learn to place a material value on what you've previously discounted for being merely intangible ... you realize you're much, much wealthier than you ever imagined.

Rory Sutherland

#6. A flower is a weed with an advertising budget.

Rory Sutherland

#7. Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.

Ariel Garten

#8. Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

Rory Sutherland

#9. History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Henry Adams

#10. Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

Jim Thompson

#11. The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

James Madison

#12. Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

Rory Sutherland

#13. I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

Rory Sutherland

#16. When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.

Rory Sutherland

#17. I that please some, try all, both joy and terror
Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

William Shakespeare

#18. Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#19. I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

Marie Osmond

#20. Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

Joy Page

#21. There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."

Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

Patrick Rothfuss

#22. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Rory Sutherland

#23. If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Thomas Dewey

#24. The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Phyllis McGinley