fav quotes i've memorialized

sometimes it's better to look from afar

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
— John le Carré

“Finding something that improves your life is a great way to find something to impact others.”
— Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Founder of Venmo

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

“Everyone keeps saying you've changed… I (p*oped) my pants - I had to change.”
— anon

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
— Zen Shin

“Pessimists are usually right, and optimists are usually wrong, but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
— Thomas Friedman

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails...”
— Jimmy Dean

“And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things and the people that just dream about them. You have to act.”
— Steve Jobs

“We yearn to be infinite so desperately we forget to find beauty in our finite existence.”
— anon

“The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching... The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
— Fahrenheit 451, page 150