Simon Travaglia Quotes


"Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Idea, Being)

"What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Change, Fear, Personality)

"Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Ethics, Nothing)

"There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Life, Theories)

"The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Denial, Potential)

"Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Faults, Pretty)

"Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: People, Thoughts, Actions, Names)

"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Rules)

"It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Happiness, People)

"The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: People)

"It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator."
- Simon Travaglia
"Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Death, Life)

"Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with."
- Simon Travaglia
"It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Time, First, Rest)