“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Archive http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/october-2013/87/jules-bianchi, Motorsport Magazine, October 2013
“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“The only question on which we did not agree has been settled, and the Lord has decided against me.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
To Marsena Patrick, as quoted in "Honoring Lee Anew" http://wluspectator.com/2014/07/15/cox-honoring-lee-anew/ (15 July 2014), by David Cox, A Magazine of Student Thought and Opinion <br class="br">1860s
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Context: I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
Parkyn's Case (1696), 13 How. St. Tr. 134.
“It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.”
Isabel II do Reino Unido (1926–2022) queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and head of the Commonwealth of Nations
1957 Christmas Broadcast; quoted on royal website http://www.royal.gov.uk/imagesandbroadcasts/thequeenschristmasbroadcasts/christmasbroadcasts/christmasbroadcast1957.aspx (25 December 1957)
“When your heart has been broken,
Hard words have been spoken.
It ain't easy - but it's only love.”
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
It's Only Love, performed with Tina Turner
Song lyrics, Reckless (1984)