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Alan Kay
Alan Kay
1971

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
·1862·White House

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
·1900

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
·1490·Milan

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

Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
·1856

Henceforth I ask not good fortune — I myself am good fortune.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
·1841·Concord

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Appius Claudius Caecus
Appius Claudius Caecus
·312 BCE

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca
·-218 AD

I will either find a way, or make one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
·1860·Concord

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Socrates
Socrates
·400 BC·Athens

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
·1913·Sagamore Hill

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Epictetus
Epictetus
·108 AD·Nicopolis

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Aesop
Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves.

Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis

Arise, begin this very moment, and say, “Now is the time to do: now is the time to fight, now is the proper time for amendment.”

Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca
·218 BC·The Alps

I will either find a way or make one.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
·1874·Basel

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
·1983

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
·1994

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.

Erskine Childers
Erskine Childers
·1922·Dublin, Ireland

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

William James
William James
·1908

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
·1841·Concord, Massachusetts, USA

Do the thing, and you shall have the power; but they who do not do the thing have not the power.

Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham
·1973

Do not let anyone else run your business.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
·1599

Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Blake
William Blake
·1804

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's; I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.

Herodotus
Herodotus
·-440 AD

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Epictetus
Epictetus
·108 AD·Nicopolis

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.