"When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions."

“Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”

“All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.”

“After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.”

“Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.”

“You need to ask yourself, ‘Where do you want to work: startups, mid-size or large companies?’ If you find yourself debating the ‘startup versus large company’ choice you’ve already chosen the big company. Entrepreneurship isn’t a career choice it’s a passion and obsession.”

“Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2017). “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic”, p.50, Imprint

“There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.”

Source : Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.232, Routledge

“Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.”