“We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.”
“You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.”
Statement of 2006, partly cited in Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) by Scott Wilson, p. 117
2000s
Context: You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made — sort of a small-scale offbeat movie — called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the end this Bible code idea comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers.
“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”
As quoted in Fortune (9 November 1998); also quoted in "TIME digital 50" in TIME digital archive (1999) http://web.archive.org/web/20000612103032/http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/08.html
1990s
Context: Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
“If you try to please everyone you’ll please no one.”
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
The Finest Story in the World http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/ManyInventions/fineststory.html (1893).
Other works
Source: Many Inventions
Context: When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Variant: Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Context: O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
“the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
Source: Selected Poems
“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
Variant: Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!
“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
“He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.”
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
Person to person: The problem of being human: A new trend in psychology (1967)
Source: page 187.
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
Source: Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
Variant: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
