"The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other. We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences. These lists are meaningless."

-- Roger Cohen

#Stupid Quotes #Eight Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“I'm very used to hurricanes. I'm from Puerto Rico and we have 3 or 4 a year. When you have no power, no light, no email, no place to go, you realize who your loved ones are and where you are in your life at that moment.”
“Winning is not enough. All others must lose.”
“I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.”
“Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.”

Source : Robert Herjavec (2010). “Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life”, p.13, HarperCollins Canada
“You can hide memories, but you canâ€™t erase the history that produced them”
“Sun! Love it but know I should not be in it so much.”
“Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.”
“All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.”

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