"Reading takes much time, and the glass teat takes too much of it" - Stephen King

"You stood in a line to get on a roller coaster. Why are you mad when there's high's and lows" - Shaan Puri (On starting a business)

"I can't keep it in just because it's good. It has to be good, if I'm being paid for it. What I'm not being paid for is self indulgence" - Stephan King

"The most dangerous man is never the loudest man" - dry creek wrangler school

"If I have to tell you, then I lose. But if I can show you, then I win" - Stephan King

"When Aeschines spoke, they said, 'How well he speaks.' But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, 'Let us march against Philip'" - Ogilvy on Advertising

"Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you" -David Ogilvy

"I can't be sure I'm getting anywhere when I'm working hard, but I can be sure I'm getting nowhere when I'm not, and it feels awful" - Paul Graham

"If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining" - Marcus Aurelius

"Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition" - W.H. Auden

"They do not what they intended but what they happen to run across" - Seneca

"Better not to start, once started, better to finish" - Zen saying

"Every man needs a battle to fight, an adventure to have, and a beauty to win" - Wild at heart

"Who seeks for something he finds it. Who doesn't want it enough they look for excuses" - Khabib Nurmagomedov

"Not everyone who you fight is an enemy and not everyone who helps you is a friend" - Mike Tyson

"Being good at chess is a sign of a gentleman. Being great at chess is a sign of a wasted life"

"Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising" - James Bond

"The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live" - Epictetus

"You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? Its easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally" - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

"Abundance is cool, but more abundance is cooler" - Dr mike isratel

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative" - Oscar Wilde

"Life is good if it squishes nicely when you poke it" - Sasha chapin

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them" - Turkish proverb

"What is to give light must endure burning" - Victor Frankl

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest people" - Roald Dahl