“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”
Fay Weldon (1931) English author, essayist and playwright
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Variant: The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Variant: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.
“A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.”
Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
Though often attributed to Garvey, this statement first appears in Charles Siefert's 1938 pamphlet, The Negro's or Ethiopian's Contribution to Art.
Misattributed
“In me is the sky, in me lies the earth.”
Kuvempu (1904–1994) Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker
A couplet he wrote in Kannada, before writing his first full poem in the language.
Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)
“Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.”
Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) American tennis player
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=zY7FE9ZyDO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false. Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals. <br class="br">1900s <br class="br">Variant: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
„Nikdo není nikomu roven. Jsou dny, kdy člověk není roven ani sám sobě.“
Thomas Sowell (1930) americký ekonom a sociální teoretik, politický filozof a autor
„Dokud nepřestaneme ubližovat ostatním živým tvorům, budeme pořád barbary.“
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3. prezident Spojených států amerických
„Všichni vězíme v bahně, jen někteří z nás se dívají ke hvězdám.“
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) dramatik, prozaik a básník
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
Joyce Cary (1888–1957) Irish writer
John Rogers writer, comedian and producer from the United States
In an "Ephemera" blog post http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html<br>This also appears in Ch. 10 of The Value of Nothing (2010) by Raj Patel, who later acknowledged it was a borrowed joke in "Citation Alert!" http://rajpatel.org/2010/01/21/citation-alert/ (21 January 2010) at rajpatel.org.
Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner
Attributed in "Making a run at the Olympic dream", an unsigned article from The StarPhoenix, 9 May 2007, at canada.com (CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.) http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/sports/story.html?id=b111ee9e-182a-4cff-831a-f784cc7bb37e
“Are you running out of breath? Go faster!”
Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner
Life credo
“It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.”
Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner
Attributed in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, 8 August 2008 (Galadari Printing and Publishing Co.) http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/weekend/2008/August/weekend_August25.xml&section=weekend&col=
„Sportovec nemůže utíkat s penězi v kapsách. Musí běžet s nadějí v srdci a se sny v hlavě.“
Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) československý běžec
„V jeskyni, do které se bojíte vstoupit je poklad který hledáte.“
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) americký mytolog, spisovatel a přednášející