Leestijd: 11 minuten

In quoting others, we cite ourself.

julio cortazar
Miyamoto Musashi was Japans bekendste Ronin

Deze quote van Cortazar leek mij toepasselijk om een serie uitspraken, aforismen en citaten van wijze en onwijze mensen mee te beginnen. Elke quote van een ander zegt namelijk ook iets over jezelf. Of je het er nu mee eens bent of niet, altijd gebruik je het om je eigen mening te benadrukken. En leen je bovendien het gezag van de ander om jouw standpunt kracht bij te zetten. Dat zal ze leren. Zegt Julio.

Daar ben ik het natuurlijk mee eens. Maar soms is een quote ook gewoon leuk of inspirerend. Zet ie je even aan het denken. Wie weet onthoud je hem misschien wel. Daarna duurt het niet lang voordat je vergeten bent dat je hem hier vandaan hebt, van Rizoomes quote. Zo gaat dat.

Deze pagina wordt in de loop van 2022 verder aangevuld. Elke week een blokje van zeven nieuwe quotes.

Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.

Robert de niro in ronin

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

paul valery

Het zou kunnen dat de ander gelijk heeft.

hans georg gadamer

Egotist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me

ambrose bierce

Alles gaat voorbij, behalve het verleden.

Luc Huyse

This too, shall pass

oud perzische uitspraak, beroemd geworden door abraham lincoln

Rizoomes Quote Week 2

Rizoomes Quote Goethe
Rizoomes quote Goethe van een muur langs het Pieterpad, ergens in de buurt van Groesbeek

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves, 1972

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

blaise pascal

Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

epictetus

I want you to be nice until it’s time not to be nice.

dalton in de film ‘roadhouse’

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

friedrich nietzsche

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Rizoomes Quote Week 3

Alles wat wij zien is wat de zon schijnt

george berkeley

Een deskundig mens is een mens die zich volgens de regels vergist

paul valery

You can make a buffalo go anywhere, so long as they want to go there

jerry weinberg

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

Moebius

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

jean paul sartre

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists

eric hoffer

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning

jean baudrillard

Rizoomes Quote Week 4

Seneca kent zijn klassiekers 🙂

Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

seneca

Argo is an object with no other cause than its name, with no other identity than its form.

roland barthes (wiens werk handig uitkwam om te bepalen of een oldtimer met nieuwe onderdelen nog steeds een oldtimer is. lees het hier)

You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

De ervaring leert dat er altijd van alles misgaat. De vraag is alleen, wanneer.

chateau meiland

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible.

rene magritte (wiens quote ook gebruikt is in dit blog ceci n’est pas un feu)

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

There are some things one remembers even though they never have happened.

harold pinter in old times, 1971

Rizoomes Quote Week 5

Een voorbereide geest heeft het geluk aan zijn zijde

Makaya McCraven, jazzdrummer extraordinaire

Whereof one cannot roar, thereof one must be silent.

chewbacca

The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.

oren harari

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

michel montaigne

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

didacus stella

Just slow things down and it becomes more beautiful.

david lynch

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

epictetus

Rizoomes Quote Week 6

There is no good reason good can’t triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia

kurt vonnegut

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest

W. edwards deming

“Je moet je geen illusies maken, het gebeurde bijna nooit; maar in sommige uiterst zeldzame, bijna miraculeuze gevallen – die niettemin echt voorkwamen – kon het toch gebeuren.”

Michel Houellebecq heeft zijn eigen black swan definitie gemaakt. (uit elementaire deeltjes)

Freedom is never free. It requires risk taking.

nassim nicholas taleb
Seneca in het Prado

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.

seneca

A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

jorge luis borges

An ability to understand or appreciate beauty is going to make you a much more better decision maker as a human.

david snowden

Rizoomes Quote Week 7

In a crisis that forces a choice to be made among alternative courses of action, people tend to choose the worst possible course.

rudin’s second law

Experience is the name that each one gives to his mistakes.

oscar wilde

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

isaac asimov

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.

marcus aurelius
Anton Chekov, schilderij van Levitan uit 1886

Ik ben niet altijd mijn eigen mening toegedaan.

paul valery

Any idiot can face crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.

anton chekov

It is far easier to figure out if something is fragile than to predict the occurrence of an event that may harm it.

nassim nicholas taleb

Rizoomes Quote Week 8

He who is everywhere, is nowhere

seneca

You practice and you get better. It’s very simple.

Philip Glass

When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground

oud afrikaans spreekwoord

Not al those who wander, are lost

tolkien

Als twee mensen hetzelfde doen, doen ze niet hetzelfde.

terentius

No man steps in the same river twice

heraclitus

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before?

francis ford coppola

Rizoomes Quote Week 9

Wie bang is, krijgt ook klappen

Sam de Hond. Inderdaad de vader van.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

mark twain

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

charles addams (schrijver van de familie)

Unless you are prepared to expect the unexpected, be prepared to expect the unexpected defeat.     

Anirudh Sethi

Favorable surprises are easy to handle. It’s the unfavorable surprises that cause the trouble.     

David Clark, internetpionier

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws

tacitus

Rizoomes Quote Week 10

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

albert einstein

The cental rule in life is that it is much, much better to panic early than late

nicholas taleb

Understand, don’t memorize

richard feynman

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely

carl jung

Aan veranderingen kan ik niks veranderen.

typisch moerdijk

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.

h.l. mencken

We zijn niet schuldig aan het verleden, maar wel verantwoordelijk voor de manier waarop we het levend houden.

arnoud jan bijsterveld

Rizoomes Quote Week 11

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

ambrose bierce

Things that never happened before happen all the time

carl sagan

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see every day.

Erwin Schrödinger

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way

lao tze

We moeten zo goed mogelijk doen wat in onze macht ligt en voor de rest met de omstandigheden omgaan zoals ze nu eenmaal zijn.

epictetus

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.    

napoleon

News is only the first rough draft of history

alan barth

Week 12

If you don’t know where you going, any road will bring you there

alice

An expert is not someone that gives you the right answer, it is someone who asks you the right question

eli goldratt

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again

andre gide

Desperation can make a person do surprising things

veronica roth

De kwestie is dat u anderen ziet zoals u denkt dat ze zijn. Niet zoals ze werkelijk zijn. En anderen zien u, zoals ze denken dat u bent. Iedereen is slechts een verzinsel van degene die hij ontmoet

drs zielknijper in het spook van bommelstein

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people

socrates

The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe

dr leonard mccoy in star trek IV

Week 13

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response

victor frankl

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me

arielle dombasie

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.

sun tzu

Het leven kan slechts achterwaarts begrepen worden maar moet voorwaarts geleefd worden.

Kierkegaard

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist

Charles Baudelaire en Kaiser Söse

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy’s place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

john berger

Quote Week 14

At your highest moment, be careful; that’s when the devil comes for you.

denzel washington

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often

mae west

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him

seneca

There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

alexander von humboldt

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.    

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Happiness is not doing what you like, but liking what you do

j.m. coetzee

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude to the problem

jack sparrow

Rizoomes quote week 15

There can never be surprises in logic. 

ludwig wittgenstein

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know

pema chödrön

People expect what they expect.. They never realize the possibility of surprise beyond expectations..!”

Vaibhav Mehta

It doesn’t make sense to hire people and tell them what to do; we hire smartt people so they can tell us what to do

steve jobs

Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that in the process he does not himself become a monster.

nietzsche

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

hannah ahrendt

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins

martin heidegger

Week 16

Never confuse education with intelligence. Intelligence isn’t the ability to remember and repeat, like they teach you in school. Intelligence is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations.

richard feynman

The key to good decisionmaking isn’t knowledge. It’s understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

malcolm gladwell

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

charles Mingus

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

paul virilio

Education isn’t something you can finish

isaac asimov

If you don’t take an opponent serious, they surprise you

canelo alvarez

There’s surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what shouldn’t be done at all.

peter drucker

Laatste week met quotes: 17

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows

epictetus

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketeers have always known this fact

daniel kahneman

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

antoine de saint exupery

De waarheid is heel eenvoudig, maar het is altijd ingewikkeld daar achter te komen.

georges sand

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

winnie the pooh

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves

victor frankl

Dit zijn de laatste zeven quotes. Na vier maanden is mijn conclusie dat het weliswaar een leuk project was, maar dat de inspanning niet opweegt tegen de opbrengst. In die zin is het bij een probeersel gebleven. Maar kom af en toe nog eens kijken: interessante quotes zal ik blijven toevoegen. Alleen niet meer elke dag.

Spijt is verstand dat te laat komt

britt dekker

Dit blog is onderdeel van het hoofdstuk Projecten & Probeersels