The goal I have always pursued in my life is not to pretend that I have an infinite time on earth (or on a far lesser scale, that a nice holiday will last forever), but to not let the certainty of an ending compromise the quality of the experience in the meantime. Viewed in this way, endings are not to be feared, but rather add to the intensity of, and appreciation for, the time we have.
Tom Glocer, former CEO, Thomson Reuters
It’s your heart running around outside your body.
Steve Jobs (regarding kids)
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
…don’t be afraid to stretch yourself. It opens doors that you would never have thought could be opened to you…
@iammobilebob
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product. So, you know, I obviously believed in listening to customers, but customers can’t tell you about the next breakthrough that’s going to happen next year that’s going to change the whole industry. So you have to listen very carefully. But then you have to go and sort of stow away—you have to go hide away with people that really understand the technology, but also really care about the customers, and dream up this next breakthrough.
Steve Jobs
The reason everything looks beautiful is because it is always out of balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony.
Shunryu Suzuki
Message to myself: Slow down. Listen. Understand. Comfort. …and play with your kids until they’re too worn out to play anymore. Life is far too short to selfish.
Me
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.
John Adams
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
Michael Pollan
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My name is Matt and I am a Product Manager specializing in Mobile at Thomson Reuters. I like my Family. I like Apple. I like Photography. I like Mobile Toys. I like Food. I like Golf. I'm big into all technology with major interests in mobile which fascinates the begeebees out of me. I like a lot of stuff so I thought I'd share along with the occasional light-bulb of insight too. All views expressed are mine alone.
