"If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced."

-- Frans de Waal

#Party Quotes #Chance Quotes #Killing Quotes

“For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.”
“The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!”

Source : Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 35, (p. 251), 1951.
“And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.”
“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.”
“Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.”

Source : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
“Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.”
“Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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