Margins Quotes

• Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Focus And Concentration, Victory

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• It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

  Lou Gerstner

  Loss, Technology, Computer

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• Your margin is my opportunity.

  Jeff Bezos

  Opportunity

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• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Sprung Up, Fiction

  "Fictions of Every Kind" (1971)

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• I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

  Pierre de Fermat

  Math, Enough, Proof

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• I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

  John Sayles

  Mean, Independent, Once Upon A Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

  Thomas Merton

  Acceptance, People, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.6, Sounds True

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• How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?

  Richard Twiss

  Voice, Ifs, Capable

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• For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Mean, Eye, Together

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels"". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Forever, Experience

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• This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

  Scott Lynch

  Book, Looks, Legends

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.75, Del Rey

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• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Safety, Challenges

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

  Will Youmans

  Art, Creativity, Voice

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• The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Voting, Vote

  The New York Times, November 11, 1963.

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• People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

  Sam Harris

  Strong, Atheist, People

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.225, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

  Gregory Maguire

  Bird, Horizon, Maps

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• We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

  George Eliot

  Self, Achievement, Looks

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3538, ShandonPress

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• The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Giving, Risk, Want

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• I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  Steig Larsson

  Demonstration, Propositions, Marvellous

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• I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Exclamation Marks, Numbers

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• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

  John Green

  Wise, Labyrinth, Notes

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.117, Penguin

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• Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.

  Simone Elkeles

  Winning, Ties, Bigs

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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• Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sunset, Silence, Gone

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.427, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

  Hilary Mantel

  Thinking, Lines, Pages

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