Good quotes hit hard and stay with you. Here are some that have stuck with me over the years.

01. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

—Anaïs Nin

02. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

—Steve Jobs

03. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms —to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

—Viktor Frankl

04. The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

—Ram Dass

05. To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

—Confucius

06. Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

—Robert L. Peters

07. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

—George Bernard Shaw

08. The creative adult is the child who survived.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

09. One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

—Paulo Coelho

10. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

—Mark Twain

11. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

—Anaïs Nin

12. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

—Pablo Picasso

13. Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

—José Ortega y Gasset

14. Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify…. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden

15. Thought is the enemy of flow

—Vinnie Colaiuta

16. Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

—Francis Ford Coppola

17. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building.

—H. Jackson Brown Jr.

18. Craftsmanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

—Richard Sennett

19. Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

—Cyprus the great

20. Good stories always beat good spreadsheets.

—Chris Sacca

21. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

—Leonardo da Vinci

22. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

—Charles Darwin

23. Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

—Albert Einstein

24. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

—Muhammad Ali

25. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

26. Talent is the desire to practice.

—Malcom Gladwell

27. The details are not the details. They make the design.

—Charles Eames

28. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest to fool.

—Richard P. Feynman

29. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard Shaw

30. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

31. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

—Goethe

32. When we build, let us think that we build forever.

—John Ruskin

33. Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.

—Lord Acton

34. Poor thinking hides in complexity.

—Shane Parrish

35. Write with the door closed, edit with the door open.

—Stephen King

36. The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

—William Gibson