"Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done."

-- Barry Diller

#Twenties Quotes #Done Quotes

“Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition”
“Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.”

Source : Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt
“True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.”
“It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)”
“Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.”
“Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.”
“You become what you behold.”
“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”

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