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  1. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. |
     

    Career

    #743 source

  2. Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. |
     

    Career

    #742

  3. If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #741

  4. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. |
     

    Work

    #740

  5. The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. |
     

    Mankind

    #738

  6. We seek the love of others to have another reason to love ourselves. |
     

    Love

    #737

  7. The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself. |
     

    Love

    #736

  8. To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. |
     

    Love

    #735

  9. You can fix it now on the drafting board with an eraser or you can fix it later on the construction site with a sledge hammer. |
     

    Design

    #732

  10. Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. |
     

    Design

    #730

  11. Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #726

  12. We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #725

  13. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #724

  14. I have only one thing to do:
    be the wave that I am and then
    sink back into the ocean.
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    Life and Death

    #723

  15. There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. |
     

    Love

    #722

  16. It's only words... unless they're true. |
     

    Writing & copywriting

    #721

  17. Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #720

  18. If everyone likes your design, it's banal. Mediocrity shirks offense. Art dares it. |
     

    Design

    #718 source

  19. A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them. |
     

    Mankind

    #716

  20. Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. |
     

    Mankind

    #715

  21. Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. |
     

    Work

    #714

  22. One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #713

  23. That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. |
     

    Love

    #712

  24. A prototype is a question, embodied. |
     

    Design

    #711 source