"The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring."

-- Elias Canetti

#People Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Adjusting Quotes

“I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.”
“Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.”
“These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of unwritten rules of how campaigns are run, and everybody has followed those rules consistently over the decades. And no one has really even seriously thought about breaking them.”
“If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves.”
“The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.”

Source : Broadcast on Radio Bremen, August 2, 1940.
“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mÃ©lange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.”
“There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.”

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