Quotes

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” – Bruce Garrabrandt

“Steve Jobs cared very little for material possessions. His singular focus was on creating the best and most original designs, and when he did so, good fortune followed him. Concentrate on maintaining a high sense of purpose, and the success will flow to you naturally. ” – Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature 

“Man would rather have the void as purpose than be void of purpose.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine. What is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” – Susan Sontag

“Be extra wary around people who display such emphatic traits. It is very easy to get caught up in the appearance and first impression. Watch for the signs and emergence of the opposite over time.” – Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you. Most men…seek less to be instructed, and even to be amused, than to be praised and applauded.” – Jean de La Bruyere

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” – Sir Isaac Newton

“You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite invisible to me.”

“Not invisible but unnoticed Watson. You did not know where to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumbnails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”

– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity

“People will tend to leak out more of their true feelings, and certainly hostile ones, when they are drunk, sleepy, frustrated, angry, or under stress. They will later tend to excuse this, as if they weren’t themselves for the moment, but in fact they were actually being more themselves than ever.” – Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature