Rakowitz Quotes

I've seen people that are extremely brilliant and they don't have the staying power. They don't have that never give up quality. I've always said that other than bad ideas, which is a reason for failure, the ability to never ever quit or give up is something that is very, very important for success as an entrepreneur. ~ Donald Trump

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that? ~ Nigel Dennis

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead. ~ Hugh Jackman

They proceed from conclusion to evidence; our greatest resource is the mind, and the mind is not well-trained by being taught to assume what has to be proved… Don't allow your thinking to be done for you by any party or faction, however high-minded. Distrust any speaker who talks confidently about 'we,' or speaks in the name of 'us.' Distrust yourself if you hear these tones creeping into your own style. The search for security and majority is not always the same as solidarity; it can be another name for consensus and tyranny and tribalism. ~ Christopher Hitchens

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. ~ Arthur Helps

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure. ~ Dalai Lama

Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it. ~ J.M. Coetzee