"More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods."

-- Akio Morita

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly”
“But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.17, Penguin
“I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.”
“These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.”
“When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.”
“A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldnâ€™t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. Thatâ€™s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.”
“The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.”

Source : Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.120, Penguin
“He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache”

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