"I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing."

-- David Maraniss

#Book Quotes #Focus Quotes #Tests Quotes

“Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.”

Source : "Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company" by David Ulevitch, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2012.
“YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.”
“Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts”
“When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.”

Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.”
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
“You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.”
“If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.”

Source : The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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