"Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Inspirational Quotes #Dream Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.”

Source : "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.
“You don't trust yourself then who's going to believe in you?”
“I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.”
“I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.”

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin
“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
“Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.”
“I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 148), 1986.
“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.”

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