"I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career."

-- Bill Burr

#Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull,”
“I am a daylight atheist.”
“I got bloopers, loopers and droppers. I got a jump ball, a be ball, a screw ball, a wobbly ball, a whipsy-dipsy-do, a hurry-up ball, a nothin' ball and a bat dodger. My be ball is a be ball 'cause it 'be' right were I want it, high and inside. It wiggles like a worm. Some I throw with my knuckles, some with two fingers. My whips-dipsy-do is a special fork ball I throw underhand and sidearm that slithers and sinks. I keep my thumb off the ball and use three fingers. The middle finger sticks up high, like a bent fork.”
“A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.”
“You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.”
“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”
“Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.”
“The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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