"Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?"

-- Nick Hornby

#Smart Quotes #Odds Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.”
“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.180, Read Books Ltd
“I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.”
“Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.”
“I don't lead you and you must not lead me too, but we have each other, go forward together as brothers and sisters.”
“You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.”
“I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.”
“Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”

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