Morning Coffee Quotes

I was saddened by the passing of Steve Jobs this past week. It seems odd because I have never owned anything made by Apple. That doesn't change the fact that I see this man as a luminary and a great inspiration. He was complicated, passionate and dedicated and, because of this, he made a profound difference in our world.




"Stay hungry. Stay foolish"
- As quoted by Steve Jobs from final edition of The Whole Earth Catalog

"It is always your next move."
- Napoleon Hill

"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
- Steve Jobs

"People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty."
- Tim Ferriss

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."
- Mike Tyson

"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
- James Joyce

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius

"Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land."
- Denis Diderot

"It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear."
- Dick Cavett

"We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves."
- Pema Chödrön

"No one yet knows an antidote to the political disease of single-interest pluralism."
- Peter Drucker

"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
- Cyril Connolly

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
- Woodrow Wilson

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do."
- Steve Jobs

"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
- Judith Martin

"To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful."
- Edward R. Murrow

"The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's."
- Polish Proverb

"No one respects a talent that is concealed."
- Desiderius Erasmus

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
- Confucius

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem."
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort