Dee Hock

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Common sense needs to be more common.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves