"We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that."

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Source : Geoffrey Wolff (2013). “A Day at the Beach: Recollections”, p.7, Vintage

Geoffrey Wolff

#Happiness Quotes #Winning Quotes #Cost Quotes

“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”
“That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.”
“I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.”
“Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others”

Source : Journal of the American Medical Association, nypost.com. June 18, 2008.
“I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.”
“I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.”

Source : "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.
“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan
“I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.”

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