"One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not."

-- Mark Skousen

#Writing Quotes #College Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?”
“Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.”
“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.”

Source : Craig Raine (2011). “In Defence of T. S. Eliot”, p.448, Pan Macmillan
“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.”
“From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.”

Source : Maurice Cowling (1990). “Mill and Liberalism”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
“Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.”
“Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.”
“No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your loveâ€”they have to earn it.”

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