“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see”
– Muhammad Yunus
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it”
– Dee Hock
“If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like”
– Soichiro Honda
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important”
– Bertrand Russell
“The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function”
– F Scott Fitzgerald
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through”
– Sydney J Harris
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us”
– Helen Keller
“The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others”
– B.C. Forbes
“Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day”
– Booker T. Washington
“The biggest obstacle to learning something is the belief that you already know it”
– Teaching from Zen philosophy
“Technology does not just offer a set of limited functions, it provides a vocabulary of elements that can be put together � programmed � in endlessly novel ways for endlessly novel purposes”
– W. Brian Arthur