"Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it."

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Source : Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

Laurence Gonzales

#Practice Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #One Day Quotes

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Itâ€™s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.
“It's my pleasure and honor to be here fighting on HBO and in the United States.”
“One day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.”
“The greatest ability is dependability.”
“...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where--' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read'... This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves. Next, and this is the most amazing part, they use a demeaning tone like I'm the stupid one for wasting time with books.”
“While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.”

Source : Charles J. Givens (1995). “More Wealth Without Risk”, p.294, Simon and Schuster
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes”
“No stream rises higher than its source”

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