"I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones and demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around."

-- Mark Frauenfelder

#Fun Quotes #Iphone Quotes #People Quotes

“So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties,”
“It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.”
“Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.”
“If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.”
“It can be done, but you have to make it happen.”
“Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.159
“My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichÃ©s.”

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