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“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
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“There are three reasons to be in business. To make money, to have fun – and to make money.”
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“Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.”
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“Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the underlying protocol of the Internet, and read them. And then I signed on to a computer, which anyone can do nowadays, and I messed around with it for a few years, and now I know all about it. Does that make me a technocrat?”
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“Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.”
Source : Nicholas Culpeper, Parkins (1814). “The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines Made of English Herbs: Not in Any Former Impression of Culpeper's British Herbal ... to which is Added The Family Physician ... and A Present for the Ladies”, p.350
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“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.”
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“People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices”
Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.”
