"To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people."

-- Juliana Hatfield

#People Quotes #Steps Quotes #Action Quotes

“If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.”

Source : "When Good News Feels Bad". archive.frontpagemag.com. February 17, 2005.
“A thing of beauty is a job forever.”
“Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.”
“A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.”
“You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much”
“First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.”
“I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.”
“A bit is worth 10,000 basis points.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.75, Macmillan

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