"Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe."

-- Alfie Kohn

#Play Quotes #Risk Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.”
“Influence is providing attention and value to others.”
“I wonâ€™t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. Youâ€™re worse than my mother, Rachel.â€ â€œMine, too,â€ Jenks muttered.”
“Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.”
“Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.”
“I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.”
“Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.”
“Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think you're in a situation you can't escape from, when you've reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everything's overturned; from one second to the next you find you're living a new life.”

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