"Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the rÃ©sumÃ© race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk."

-- David Brooks

#Jumping Quotes #Race Quotes #Lust Quotes

“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”
“Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.”
“It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.”
“I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.”
“When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.”
“The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.”
“If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.”

Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (1904). “The Imperialist”, New York : D. Appleton
“Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.”

Source : Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

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