"A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan."

-- Brit Marling

#Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes #People Quotes

“Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced". In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to "the number of lines of code spent".”
“I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. I had a great first love. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.”
“We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,”

Source : "State of the Union 2014: Obama calls for 'year of action'" by Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2014.
“Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.”

Source : Susan Cheever (2009). “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.131, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.”

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