“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things it takes religion”
“Know the men who follow you, and let them know you. Don’t ask your men to die for a stranger”
“Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience, what they see,hear and believe will determine the future course for the nation”
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed”
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory”
“The only difference between you and a caveman is the car you drive.”
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence”
“It is evil for a nation to believe it is “the last, best hope on earth.””
“Where a society is defined by its boundaries, a culture is defined by its horizon”
“If a state has no enemies it has no boundaries”
“Under the constant danger of war the people of a state are far more attentive and obedient to the finite structures of their society”
“There is no possibility of conversation with a loudspeaker”
“When you’re surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.”
“You love desire, not the desired.”
“Some say knowledge is power. Some tell us that all power comes from the gods. Others say it derives from law. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less”
“For a mute to take a vow of silence would be akin to a legless man giving up the dance”
“Palermo non mi piaceva, per questo imparai ad amarla, perché il vero amore consiste nell’amare ciò che non ci piace, per poterlo cambiare”
“To love a woman is to hate life”
“History is filled with evidence that Leadership by Force cannot endure. The downfall and disappearance of “Dictators” and kings is significant. It means that people will not follow forced leadership indefinitely”
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”
“If one has sufficient power to win before the game has begun, what follows is not a game at all”
“Who lives horizon ally is never somewhere, but always in passage”
“Just as the blowing of the winds preserves the sea from the foulness which would be the result of a prolonged calm, so also corruption in nations would be the product of prolonged, let alone ‘perpetual’ peace”
“We all think we know how the world works. But we’ve all only experienced a tiny sliver of it”
“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. Education discovers an increasing richness in the past, because it sees what is unfinished there. Training regards the past as finished and the future as to be finished. Education leads toward a continuing self-discovery; training leads toward a final self-definition. Training repeats a completed past in the future. Education continues an unfinished past into the future.”
“Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.”
“Men may follow the forced leadership temporarily, but they will not do so willingly.”
“To reach the billion-dollar status, to alter the course of an industry, requires a very special and rare partnership between one who knows WHY and those who know HOW”
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person”
“I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another”
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be”
“Higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies”
“A man’s wealth is not in a purse he carries, a fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it”
“The contradiction is precisely that all finite play is play against itself”
“Powerful societies do not silence their poietai in order that they may go to war; they go to war as a way of silencing their poietai.”
“To move toward a horizon is simply to have a new horizon”
“Nature has no outline. Imagination has”
“Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner’s prize is the defeated opponent”
“Infinite players are not serious actors in any story, but the joyful poets of a story that continues to originate what they cannot finish”
“Love is the bane of honour, the death of duty.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
“Most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth. Their eyes may be wide open but they don’t see a thing. Tricking them is as easy as twisting a baby’s arm”
“All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays”
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s heaven for?”
“When men first come into contact with crime, they abhor it. If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it. If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it”
“Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life”
“The joyfulness of infinite play, its laughter, lies in learning to start something we cannot finish”
“Art that is used against a society or its policies gives up its character as infinite play, and aims for an end”
“One cannot be free by opposing another”
“As an infinite player one is neither young nor old, for one does not live in the time of another”
“When a single voice is sufficiently amplified, it becomes a speaking that makes it impossible for any other voices to be heard”
