Quotes

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“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”

— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Muriel Strode (a similar quote exists by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”

— Naim Ateek, brother of Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

“In the networking world, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”

— Robyn Henderson

“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”

— Bill Gates makes the case for using a tool of business to improve the health and welfare of more of the world’s people.

“This capacity to shape a vision of what can be achieved, and to share the vision with others so that it becomes their own, is one of the most important elements of leadership.”

— Professor David Pennington, Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1988-1995

“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the result of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

— Steve Jobs, 2005

“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr

“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.”

— Robin Morgan (1941- ) feminist editor and writer

“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”

— Ben Elton, Blast from the Past
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