Collection of Quotes – Winter ‘26

“The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.”
Mark Twain

“Community is medicine.”
Mariel Buqué

“To know what you are going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”
Pablo Picasso

“The impression of invincibility is disaster itself. The stronger the illusion, the greater the fall.”
Barbara Tuchman

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
Plutarch

“History is not punctuated with a period but rather with continuing ellipses.”
Elizabeth Alexander

“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”
Martin Luther

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to learn, wander. If you want to achieve, focus.”
James Clear

“Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.”
Mary Parker Follett

“Choose uncomfortable enlargement over comfortable diminishment whenever you can.”
Oliver Burkeman

“You will not lose your entrepreneurial battles to AI; you will lose your entrepreneurial battles to people who know how to use AI better than you.”
Bill Aulet

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein

CRM 1/12/26