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“Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.”
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“The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.”
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“I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.”
Source : "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.
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“Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other”
Source : Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.
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“We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.”
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“Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.”
Source : Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.138, John Wiley & Sons
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“If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”
Source : William Gaddis (1975). “J R”, Random House
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“I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.”