quotes of day Friday, October 16, 2026

“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

“Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.”

“We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.”

“Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.”

“Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.”

“Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself”

“For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.”

“It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.”

“We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.”

“They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.”

“It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.”

“Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”