Quotes, January 2015

“The only thing violent video games have ever done is make me sit in the same spot fourteen straight hours.”
-Julius Sharpe

“Behind almost every inconvenience is a new business waiting to be born.”
-Alain de Botton

“If something that seems like work to other people doesn’t seem like work to you, that’s something you’re well suited for.”
-Paul Graham

“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
-Toni Morrison

“Once you think of a brand as a belief system, you automatically get all the things that enterprise spends billions of dollars trying to obtain: trust, relevance, vision, values, leadership.”
-Patrick Hanlon

“A man is what he believes.”
-Anton Chekhov

“What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.”
-Robert McKee

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
-Hannah Arendt

“Rather than feeling guilt, people who have hurt us typically start to hate us – for reminding them of their own meanness.”
-Alain de Botton