„once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye…….. combat some the ugliness in the world.“

„When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.“

—  Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011

Interview Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur by Santa Clara Valley Historical Association (1994) Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!steve-jobs-film/c1x1c, Silicon Valley Historical Association] Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life quote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw, Santa Clara Valley Historical Association, YouTube]
1990s

„The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

„It's absolutely ugly, but unfortunately quite true of the world today; the more money you make, the more people tend to listen to you. If you're not quoted in Fortune or Forbes or the Wall Street Journal, then nobody listens. If you say something that makes a lot of money, whether what you said is true or not, people listen.“

—  Jef Raskin American computer scientist 1943 - 2005

Programmers At Work (1986)

„When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.“

—  Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950

Origine: Chasing Fire

„Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.“

—  Haruki Murakami, libro La fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie

Origine: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

„You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.“

—  Cassandra Clare, libro Shadowhunters - Città degli angeli caduti

Origine: City of Fallen Angels

„If you can say something that's funny or do something that's ridiculous, it'll make people laugh. So many people struggle with dark thoughts, depression, and internal pain. I'm not an expert on it, but I know that if I'm ever feeling down, if someone can make me laugh, it really is a cure to those thoughts.“

—  Джош Дан American musician 1988

„All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.“

—  Doris Lessing British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer 1919 - 2013

As quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p. 18

„All your life, you’ll meet people that only want to break you down. Forget them, stand strong with the people who build you up.“

—  Марк Фишбах (Markiplier) 1989

„Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.“

—  Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

„There’re all kinds of people in this world. But they break down into two main groups, one big and one smaller. There’s the people who get moved out of the way or into line, and then there’s the people who do the moving. It’s safer and a lot more comfortable to go where you’re pushed. You don’t take any of the responsibility, and if you do what you’re told, every once in a while you get thrown a fish.
“Being a mover isn’t safe, because you may be heading for a hole, and it isn’t comfortable because you do a lot of jostling back and forth, and what’s more, it’s up to you to get your own fish. But it’s a hell of a lot of fun.“

—  Algis Budrys, libro Rogue Moon

He looked into Hawks’ eyes. “Isn’t it?”
Origine: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 1, Section 2 (pp. 12-13)

„Then I realised that it really is a philosophy that we're talking about, you know—the nonaggression axiom, that the government should be bound by the same moral laws that the rest of us are. Once you realise that, you're like, "Oh!" Your entire world opens up, and then your entire paradigm changes.“

—  Glenn Jacobs American professional wrestler and actor 1967

05:52–06:08.
"WWE Wrestler Kane Talks Libertarianism, and His Heroes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqUIwu8nuc (2013)

„See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.“

—  Ned Vizzini, libro It's Kind of a Funny Story

Origine: It's Kind of a Funny Story

„You have to open up to the world and learn optimism… Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.“

—  Jennifer Crusie American writer 1949

Origine: Agnes and the Hitman

„I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.“

—  Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958

Origine: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

„It's genes. My mother looked great at 96. And, you know, I realized that the more you're around, the more that gravity pulls you down. And so I started rubbing up. I wash my face rubbing up, I put my makeup on up and in the shower I rub up — anyplace I can. I'm going to the gym three times a week. That also helps. And it helps to have a good feeling about people. The laugh line is going to be there whether you like it or not, so keep it there — keep it in a laugh line.“

—  Lee Meriwether American actress, former model 1935

Lee Meriwether, Miss America 1955: Pageant Is 'Very Special' http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/style-trends/info-01-2013/is-miss-america-still-relevant.html (January 2, 2013)

„I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very fast. You know, take Lisp. You know, it's the most beautiful language in the world. At least up until Haskell came along. (laughter) But, you know, every program in Lisp is just ugly. I don't figure how that works.“

—  Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"

„You and I have a confidence that most people lack ... We think we can continue to be liberals and still move this forward.“

—  Paul Churchland Canadian philosopher 1942

quoted in Larissa MacFarquhar, "Two heads: A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem", The New Yorker (2007)

„…once she becomes a teenager…well, sometimes there's nothing you can do. With or without you, in the end, children grow up to become the people they were meant to be.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

Lexie Darnell, Chapter 16, p. 196-197
2000s, At First Sight (2005)