"Thatâ€™s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that heâ€™s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well."

-- Walter Mosley

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon”

Source : Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.”
“It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.”
“He was a great individual. People that don't know Patrick [Ewing] and only see what they read in the paper don't know this is a man of great integrity, love for his teammates, and love for this organization.”
“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

Source : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press
“Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.”
“Itâ€™s important to be yourself.”
“Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.”

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