Albert Einstein: "Not everything that can..."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

—Albert Einstein

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "Must one have seen..."

"Must one have seen the world? In this village, in every house, in every shack, you will find the entire range of human emotions: love and hate, fear and jealousy, envy and joy. You needn't go looking for them."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "Love makes us beautiful..."

"Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is love unconditionally and who, at the same time is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question. There is no such person."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "Music, my father often said..."

"Music, my father often said, was the only reason he could sometimes believe in a god or in any heavenly power."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "Do children what to..."

"Do children want to know their parents as independent individuals? Can we see them as they were before we came into the world?"

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "The true essence of..."

"The true essence of things is invisible to the eyes. Our sensory organs love to lead us astray, and eyes are the most deceptive of all. We rely too heavily upon them. We believe that we see the world around us, and yet it is only the surface that we perceive. We must learn to divine the true nature of things, their substance, and the eyes are rather a hindrance than a help in that regard. They distract us. We love to be dazzled."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "Life... is a gift..."

"Life... is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "What do we know..."

"What do we know about our parents, and what do they know about us? And if we don't even know the individuals who have accompanied us since birth - we not them and they not us - then what do we know about anyone at all?"

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "... there are wounds time..."

"... there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "And so there must be..."

"And so there must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know it ceases to exist. A moment that transforms us into a different person from one heartbeat to the next."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "I speak of a love..."

"I speak of a love that brings sight to the blind. Of a love stronger than fear. I speak of a love that breathes meaning into life, that defies the natural laws of deterioration, that causes us to flourish, that knows no bounds. I speak of the triumph of the human spirit over selfishness and death."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: "We must rapidly begin..."

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American clergyman & prominent activist in the civil rights movement

John Green: "The world may be broken..."

Susan Cain: "We are like rubber bands..."

“We are like rubber bands at rest. We are elastic and can stretch ourselves, but only so far.”

—Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Steve Wozniak: "Most inventors and engineers..."

“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me – they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists.  And artists work best alone where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee. If you’re that rare engineer who’s an inventor and also an artist, I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you’re working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team.”

— from Steve Wozniak's memoir iWoz, quoted in Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain: "...quiet midnights..."

“…quiet midnights and solitary sunrises…”

 
—Description of the late nights and early mornings that Steve Wozniak worked alone from Susan Cain's, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain: "I worry that there are..."

“I worry that there are people who are put in position of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas… It’s so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent… we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”

—Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain: "In the United States..."

"In the United States, conversation is about how effective you are at turning your experiences into stories, whereas a Chinese person might be concerned with taking up too much of the other person’s time with inconsequential information."

—Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain: "Americans responded to these..."

"Americans responded to these pressures by trying to become salesmen who could sell not only their company’s latest gizmo but also themselves."

—Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Adlai Stevenson, Jr: "If we value the..."

"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us."

—Adlai Stevenson, Jr.

Author Unknown: "On the outside..."

"On the outside, looks can fool even the smartest of people. It's on the inside where the transformation takes place. In the heart."

—The Velveteen Rabbit, a play, based on the classic children's book by Margery Williams, (author of the play is unknown to me)