“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Source: Lover at Last
“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope
Variant translation or similar statement: Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Context: Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Patricia A. McKillip (1948) American fantasy writer
The Snow Queen in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (eds.) Snow White, Blood Red (1993), p. 363
Short fiction
Zakir Hussain (musician) (1951) Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer
Quote, I am not torchbearer of Indian classical music: Zakir Hussain
“… how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”
William Faulkner book Light in August
Source: Light in August
“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.”
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) Soviet politician and diplomat
Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954) according to an eyewitness writing in International Affairs Vol. 36 (1960), p. 4