Good & Bad

"It's never as good as it looks, or as bad as it seems." - Rich Gelfond

Plans

“No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.” - Douglas MacArthur

Smile

"A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks." – Charles Gordy

Goals

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.” - Arnold Toynbee

Success & Failure

"Want to double your success rate, double your failure rate." - Thomas Watson, co-founder of IBM

Controversy

"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." - William Hazlitt

Experts

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr

Your best

"Only the mediocre are always at their best." - Jean Giraudoux

Wealth and fame

"Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate xx" - Stephen Fry on Twitter

Knowledge

"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." - H. L. Mencken

Perfection

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways." - Samuel McChord Crothers