"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#War Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Risk Quotes

“You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”
“The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.”
“Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.”

Source : "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.
“Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.”
“I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!”
“I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.”
“I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.”

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