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“Americans spend about 6 billion hours a year collecting the data and filling out the forms. We spend $10 billion to H&R Block and other preparers. And on top of that, $2 billion in tax preparation software, which still takes hours of work. It's outrageous the burden we put on people, and guess what, you go to Europe, you go to Japan, it's 15 minutes and costs nothing.”
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“Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.”
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“I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.”
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“My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.”
Source : "The Surprising Story Of The ’Anti-Fascist Warrior Hairdresser’ Vidal Sassoon" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2012. 
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“Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.”
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“The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.”
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“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.”
Source : "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" by Francis Crick, oregonstate.edu. 1995.
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“Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.”
Source : "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.
