D. T. Max Quotes

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method'.

The web was such a vital part of my life. It was like an oracle, a book that never ran out of pages, and a window into a million different rooms all at once.

Your career success in the workplace of today–independent of technical expertise–depends on the quality of your people skills. (9)

Only the right pain gets the right gain.

The best things happen to those who don't wait.

If life is fast, live faster.

You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.

Embrace the perpetual joy of moving perpetually forward.

Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.

If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100, 000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a 100 year life would be 0.2 seconds.

[Art] acts as 'an instrument allowing us to see through the gaps of dominant ideologies, and the source from which new methods could be drawn in the struggle against the system(s)'.

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Truth is, we don’t get grace. But it sure can get us.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

[Grief] is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.

... he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

Max, you cannot stay in the background forever. It is time to stand out in front. You have all that you need.” Analea

You’re such a little moron, aren’t you? They will hunt you down to the ends of the earth. It’s nothing personal, just business. It’s all about survival, dear boy." Drusilla Blackwood

Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea." Mibbitwiss

If you do not get to her time...............He will cut out her heart & feed it to the fishes...." Alice

You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe.” Analea

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

All we've got is Now. Life, composed of a billion moments, from our first to our last thoughts.

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

Life is your own movie. Not Gods.

Baggage is a funny thing. The more you have of it, the heavier it becomes and the longer it takes to reach your destination in life.

Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

A fathers only wish is for his children to be infinitely better off than him

If you're expecting an upside in everything you do you might get extremely disappointed unless you also think about the consequences of a downside first.