Favourite quotes of the UC Design and Native Product’s team
“Only the paranoid survive” by Andy Grove
“Writing is training data for decision making”
“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy” by Steve Jobs
“Great minds discuss ideas, average discuss events and small discuss people” by Eleanor Roosevelt
“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible” by David Ogilvy
“The four most expensive words in the English language are -this time it’s different.” by John Templeton
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased” by Katharine Hepburn
“Always avoid meetings with time-wasting morons” by Scott Adams
“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it” by Charles F. Kettering.
— Amit Das
“Brutal simplification”
— Amit Jaglan
“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness then to ask for permission”
— Ankur Nischal
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited” by Sylvia Plath.
— Ann Francis
“Sometimes you gotta do the things you don’t like to get the things don’t expect”
— Alok Kumar
One of my recent favourite & thought-provoking — “Intentions don’t matter, actions do” by Naval Ravikant.
— Brajesh Sen
“This too shall pass”
— Diya Sucheth
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” by Peter Drucker.
— Esha Singh
“Admire as much as you can, most people don’t admire enough” by Vincent Van Gogh.
— Fariz Nazeer
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
— Ganesh Deherkar
“Slowly is the fastest way to reach where you want to be”
— Krishna Navale
“Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then be a unicorn” by Phil Dunphy.
— Kareen George
“Learn from the sky. A serene beautiful day will, almost inevitably, be followed by an overcast one.
A vicious storm by a serene sunset.
Therefore nothing can be stable for long. Neither good nor bad.”
“Do what’s right, not what’s easy”
“When there’s an elephant in the room, introduce it.”
— Mayank Dhawan
“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?by Steve Jobs.”
— Rakshit Jaimini
“There is no secret ingredient. To make something special, you just have to believe it’s special.” by Kung Fu Panda.
— Suhail Gupta
“Become the best in the world at what you do, keep redefining what you do until this is true” by Naval Ravikant.
“Impatience with actions, patience with results.” by Naval Ravikant
“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.” by Richard Feynman.
— Sagar Bhardwaj
“You will never achieve extraordinary things by maintaining ordinary habits. Your habits have to be extraordinary too!”
— Shalini Mookerjee
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose” by Zora Neale Hurston.
“You are not your user.” by Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think.
— Sayantani Mukherjee
“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails” is a quote attributed to Elizabeth Edwards.
— Steena Jomy
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.”
— Shruti Gupta
“What if it can turn out better than you can imagine”
— Sarthak Gera
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful”
— Shivam Singh
“I want to put a ding in the universe.” by Steve Jobs.
— Shreyas Patil
“The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding”
— Udit Shakya
“Life is growth, if you don’t grow you die”
— Vishal Bhardwaj
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
— Yogyata Somani
