"Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Asking Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'”
“Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.”
“I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation”
“We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.”
“In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.”
“Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.”

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