Having a list of quotations is valuable for a couple of reasons:

1. I hate not remembering my favorites.
2. Quotes define a person rather quickly, helping others to get a clue of what similar beliefs we share together.

Without further ado, here is my list:

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~ Einstein

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. ~ Tara Ploughman

Focusing is about saying no. ~ Steve Jobs

If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any other requirement. ~ Gerald Weinberg

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period. ~ Anonymous

It’s better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to always be right by never having any ideas at all. ~ Edward de Bono

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~ Elbert Hubbard

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? – Keynes

Hire curious people. Even if they don’t have the exact skill set you want, curious, passionate people can learn anything. ~ Jason Fried

We are what we only pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Vonnegut

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. ~ Douglas Adams

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true. ~ Julia Sweeney

You don’t truly understand something until you think it’s obvious.

The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Be yourself, because the people who mind don’t matter, and the people who matter don’t mind. ~ Dr. Seuss

Change breaks the brittle. ~ Jan Houtema

However little television you watch, watch less. ~ David McCullough

The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

I’m not okay and you’re not okay, but that’s okay.

Talk doesn’t cook rice.

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling. ~ Michael Pollan

In the information age, it’s not just whose army wins, but whose story wins. ~ Joseph S. Nye Jr.

It’s just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away–you can fill it up with the love of art. ~ Vincent Price

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation.

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator, and that was accepting what was true over what I wished were true. — Julia Sweeney

He who is unaware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. ~ Richard Whatley