Persistence

 “In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.” -- Ulysses S. Grant

Power of Data

 "Portability and the process of decontextualization are responsible for both the power of data and its weakness. Data is powerful because it has been designed to be universally comprehensible. It has more weight in any large-scale social or institutional conversation precisely because it has been engineered for easy use. But that engineering procedure involves, necessarily, cutting out high-context understanding and specialized sensitivity.  The insensitivity and decontextualization nature is also precisely why data speaks so loudly. The power of data is inextricable from its price." C. Thi Nguyen, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

Education

“Consider education not as the painful accumulation of facts and dates and reigns, nor merely the necessary preparation of the individual to earn his keep in the world, but as the transmission of our mental, moral, technical, and aesthetic heritage as fully as possible to as many as possible, for the enlargement of man's understanding, control, embellishment, and enjoyment of life." -- Will Durant 

Leadership

 "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -- John Quincy Adams

Be Curious

 “Ten rules of thumb are still a lot for anyone to remember, so perhaps I should try to make things simpler. I realize that these suggestions have a common thread—a golden rule, if you like. Be curious.”

― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

"As Much Truth As One Can Bear"

 "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -- James Baldwin

Lives Led Well

 “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” -- Theodore Roosevelt

Adversity

 “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” --Theodore Roosevelt

Daring Greatly

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”  -- Theodore Roosevelt

Enjoy Good Luck

 "I've always heard the old folks say that if you don't know how to enjoy good luck when it comes, you shouldn't complain if it passes you by.” - in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Humility

 "Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself." - T.S. Eliot

Deterence

 "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - George Washington, First Annual Address to Congress, January 8, 1790

Essence of Science

“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.”  ― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 

Anxious Generation

  "We are overprotective in the real world, and underprotective in the digital world." - Jonathan Haidt

Our Uniqueness

  "Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." - Martin Heidegger

Free Will and the Past

"You will change your mind, but you are not free.
Your moment of freedom was yesterday.
You made a decision. You set in motion
Forces in your life and in the lives of others
Which cannot be reversed. That is one consideration.
And another is this: it is a serious matter
To bring someone back from the dead."

-T.S. Eliot (in the play The Cocktail Party)

Habits

 "People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." - F.M. Alexander

Chekhov on Trust

 "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible." --Russian playwright Anton Chekhov

Kierkegaard on Life

 "Is it perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard

The Good Life

 "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." -William Arthur Ward