"a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens."

-- Aidan Chambers

#Hurt Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Joy Quotes

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

Source : Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
“If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.”
“now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang”
“Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.”
“The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed out' the human contribution. That is, the scientific image of the world, like any other, is indelibly shaped by our interests, practices and prejudices.”
“Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Donâ€™t be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.”
“The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.”
“People are very uncomfortable when you call actors artists because there are a lot of actors out there that aren't artists - there are a lot of actors that are hired for very specific reasons that are shallow and have to do with sexual currency and what the industry thinks sells. Real actors are artists, they're expressionists.”

Source : "Family Ties". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2016.

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