"Balance is overrated."

-- Thomas Leonard

#Balance Quotes #Overrated Quotes

“You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.”

Source : "The Singing Crow And Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("The Colors"), 1926.
“From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.”

Source : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.51, Princeton University Press
“I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.”
“Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.”
“You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!”

Source : "Fictional character: Fiorello". "A Night at the Opera", 1935.
“Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.”
“O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.”

Source : Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”
“You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.”

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