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“Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.”
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“If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.”
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“If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.”
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“Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.”
Source : Arnold Bennett (2015). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding”, p.6, 谷月社
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“What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.”
Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.24, Macmillan
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“I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.”
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“People like to play with the tuna, sometimes.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.”
