"Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night."

-- Bradley Nowell

#Lying Quotes #Night Quotes #Awake Quotes

“Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.”
“Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.”
“The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.”

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press
“Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.”
“The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.”

Source : Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge
“A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.”
“I recall a conversation with the CEO of large electrical equipment MNC in which he began by asking me to guess how many innovation centres his firm had around the world. My guess was nowhere near the 160 that turned out to be the answer. Not surprisingly this CEO recognized that his firm's ability to innovate was being hampered by the huge size of their footprint which brought few benefits as it was inefficient, there was duplication across sites and competition between them. In this and most other cases, the costs of the expanded footprint outweigh the benefits.”
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”

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