"I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Michel Martin

#Thinking Quotes #Prodigies Quotes #Nina Quotes

“Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.”

Source : Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
“It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical beauty is of a rather different kind. I should say perhaps it is of a completely different kind and transcends these personal factors. It is the same in all countries and at all periods of time.”
“There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.”

Source : "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,
“Let's face the music and dance.”
“I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didnâ€™t know.”

Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.179, Macmillan
“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
“The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.”
“Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.”

Source : Paul Kurtz (1986). “The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal”

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