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“Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.”
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“You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.”
Source : "Vampires in the Lemon Grove". Book by Karen Russell, February 12, 2013.
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“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
Source : "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004. 
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“I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.”
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“Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.”
Source : Felix Klein (1893). “The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill”
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“The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.”
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“I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.”
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“All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening.”
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“History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.”
Source : Christina Baldwin, Ann Linnea (2010). “The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair”, p.144, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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“These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.”
