Rory Sutherland quotes

Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.
-- Rory Sutherland

#Motivation #Inspiration #Reality

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.
-- Rory Sutherland

#Motivation #Inspiration #Matter

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.
-- Rory Sutherland

#People #Google #Assuming

When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.
-- Rory Sutherland

#Motivation #Inspiration #Philosopher

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new
-- Rory Sutherland

#Writing #Photographer #Great Photography

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.
-- Rory Sutherland

#Motivation #Inspiration #Reality

Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.
-- Rory Sutherland

#Motivation #Inspiration #Looks

When you place a value on things like health, love, sex and other things, and learn to place a material value on what you've previously discounted for being merely intangible ... you realize you're much, much wealthier than you ever imagined.
-- Rory Sutherland

#Sex #Motivation #Inspiration

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!