Quips& Quotes

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

– Ernest Hemingway

“Trump is supposed to meet with Putin tomorrow. Probably for his first annual performance review.” – Bette Midler

“Ka mua, ka muri – walk backwards into the future.” – Maori proverb about learning from the past

“Many a false step was made by standing still.” – US author and entrepreneur Timothy Ferriss

“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” – economist JK Galbraith

“I haven’t spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months. I don’t like to interrupt her.” – British comedian Ken Dodd, quoted in the Week

“Truth springs from arguments among friends.” – Scottish philosopher David Hume, quoted in the Wall Street Journal

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – novelist Alice Walker

“William Turdsworth.” – Lord Byron’s nickname for William Wordsworth, quoted from QI

“Anger and aggression sometime seem to be protective because they bring energy to bear on a particular situation, but that energy is blind. It takes a calm mind to be able to consider things from different angles and points of view.” – Dalai Lama tweets