I survived a lot, this is what I learned:
- I fuck up a lot.
- Not everything is of equal importance. -Tom Kelly
And:
- Listen more. -The Bear
- Disagreements just mean you have to find more in common.
- Regret is something you may want to avoid. -Star Trek: Enterprise, Tripp
- Cleverness and knowledge are different things. -Bear, Hack
- Remember to WAIT>>Why Am I Talking?
- Don’t let your brain ruin your work.
- Solidarity. Conviction. Courage. -Fairytail eps. 96
- In the enormous expanse of time and space, everything is infinitesimal. It’s not just you.
- There are no gray choices. Choices become gray when we hope for a different option.
- One stalk of corn don’t grow higher than the rest of them. -Good Lord Bird, eps 6
- You made the mighty to defend the weak. -Fargo, S04E02
- Smart phones and video games are a way of keeping up with the Jones’s in who can waste the most spare time.
- It’s what you can do, not what you want to do.
- Hope is the best spice to bring out despair. -hack
- Do you wish some coffee while you plot your revenge? -Memory Prime, pg. 25
- To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. -Frederick Douglass, pg. 103
- Thanks to denial, I’m immortal. -Fry, Futurama
- Ctrl + Alt + 7>>Arise. -What We Do In the Shadows
- Money and talent aren’t the same thing. -Shadow of the Hegemon, pg. 160
- Anger is always the shortest distance to a bad mistake. -Dr. Who, Demon Run
- I’ll leave tomorrow’s problems for tomorrow’s me. -One-Punch Man, S01 E06
- HALT >> Am I Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired?
- He taught me the difference between playing hero and being responsible . . . and sometimes how the two can be the same. -Kobayashi Maru, pg. 203
- He didn’t question the direction they were taking; if you walk through a dream, he reasoned, it mattered little which way you walked. -Spartacus, pg. 241
- When you have only one guy with a shovel, you can’t build a dike to hold back the sea. -Ender’s Shadow, pg. 366
- I can’t control your opinions. I can merely disagree with them. -Ender’s Shadow, pg. 278
- As Ender had once said, most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemies stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan. -Shadow of the Hegemon, pg. 130
- . . . the human race may not survive it’s own folly in accepting uncritically the declarations of the incompetents and charlatans who corrupt science in their pursuit of hair-brained ideas. -Flim Flam
- Satyagraha is something else. The willingness to endure great personal suffering in order to do what’s right. -Shadow of the Hegemon, pg. 395
- Do you want fries with that?
- I am large. I contain multitudes. -Whitman
- Evolution started with the statement, I don’t know.
- People love hearing how right they are. -The Americans
- Tomorrow will decide what tomorrow will decide.
- How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken, Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to get rid of all the shit that weighs you down. -Tony Morrison, Song of Solomon
- Surround yourself with good people to hide your errors.
- The only shame in life is not doing the work you’re cut out for. -Pandora Principle, pg. 188
- When you have a situation that just won’t work out, sometimes the only thing you can do is change it a little bit and see if it works out better. See it from a different viewpoint. And if it still doesn’t work, well, sometimes you just can’t win. That’s engineering. -Spartacus, pg. 122
- There is always a middle way. The easiest path of water down a hillside. -Shikibu, Gulliver’s Fugitives, pg. 213
- Fear serves no purpose. Forge ahead and your path will unfold. -Fairytail, pg. 189
- It is possible to do everything correctly and still lose. -Data
- When nobody expects you to do something, they don’t actually try all that hard to keep you from doing it. -The Betterman, pg. 85
- IDIC. Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
- Listen to everyone. Repeat nothing. Form your own opinions.
- Just because you fail 99 times doesn’t mean you aren’t expected to come up with the 100th idea. -Dad
- Everything that we know is wholly, or in some part, wrong.
- I am simply trying to prove that I existed.
- Be a hero.
- In your face, high school guidance counselor. -Fry, Futurama
- How many more things could you get done if you didn’t say, I don’t want to.
- You’ve got good people who know their jobs, which takes a lot of pressure off you from the start. Just go about your business and let they go about theirs. -Time to Sow, pg. 287
- Have best practices in place before you need them.
- There are times when the only choices are bad ones.
- “What’s so hard about it” is really a question of persistence.
- All the rest of the time, every single second, just get the hell on with it. -Doctor Who
- I can do better.
- That’s the trouble with ideas. They only come a bit at a time. -4th Doctor Who
- An obvious question is better than an obvious answer. -Spock
- When you’re sitting in your armchair, you long to be on an adventure. When you’re on an adventure, you long to be sitting in your armchair. -Robert Louis Stevenson
- A night without rest is a day without perspective. -Kyle Riker, A Time to Hate
- Not every eventuality can be anticipated. -Memory Prime, pg. 89
- Imagination can make up for knowledge. -Bear, hack
- Inspire like a role model. -I am Somebody, J5MCs
- Everything is easy in the mouth. It’s in the doing that’s hard. -Kirk
- While everybody else is worrying how to balance on that one safe leg, you and me are out seeing how far the other one will stretch. Even if you fall, you got to remember that everybody has two legs, after all. Even if you stumble, you can always get up again. -Kobayashi Maru, pg.149
- When a pick pocket encounters a saint, all he notices is pockets. -Hindu
- What was past is past.
- A difference which makes no difference is no difference. -Spock Must Die, pg. 24
- We cannot choose another’s path. -Fairytail, eps. 2
- Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
- The sleep of reason brings forth monsters. -Flim Flam
- Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It’s not evil, it’s noble and good. You’ll be praised for it. And it’s delicious. -Shadow of the Hegemon, pg. 255
- Just because something is not deadly does not mean it’s pleasant. -Nightshade, pg. 233
- A step early, a step late. We walk blindly to our fate. -A Time To Kill, pg. 277
- Passion fights, reason wins. -Doctor Who
- After you have made a logical decision, your task is finished. Let fate, history, and natural order make the final determination. -A Time to Die, pg. 57
- It’s what you think you know but don’t.
- Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.
- Power corrupts.
- Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear -their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war. -Ender’s Shadow, pg. 239
- I am a million prizes in one. -Iggy Pop
- Hope is never an intrusion, but often a lie.
- When one is angry, one does not see all the possibilities. -Pandora Principle, pg. 161
- Do you honestly feel that most people in the world get the credit they deserve? -Fairytail, eps. 46
- The best field commanders are out in the field commanding. -Shadow of the Hegemon, pg. 330
- No society is made of me, me, me.
- Silence is one road to honor. -Nightshade, pg. 259
- The search for the perfect thing is greater than or equal to the owning of said thing.
- As long as you see yourselves as separate people, you cannot work together. -Nightshade, pg. 68
- Running may help for a little while, but sooner or later the pain catches up to you. The only way to get rid of it is to stand your ground and face it. -Way of the Warrior, pg. 271
- Right and wrong are matters of thought, not the fist. -The Way of the Warrior, pg. 181
- I’ve listened to my gut for 27 years and all I’ve learned is that my gut don’t know shit. -John Cusack, High Fidelity
- You don’t have to have pride in the work, just get it done.
- Challenges are temporary, life is constant. -Doctor Who, Flux, Eps. 3
- What? They did that to me? No sweat, there’s another day tomorrow. -George Carlin
- Fear is an incompetent teacher. -Picard, S01 E10
- Wide experience increases wisdom. -The IDIC epidemic, pg. 70
- Seize today for we know nothing of tomorrow.
- Sometimes you can do everything right and still lose. -Cotton, King of the Hill, S06 E11