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“Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.”
Source : Avital Ronell (2002). “Stupidity”, p.3, University of Illinois Press
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“Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue... when you see there is no oxygen, things change.”
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“It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.”
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“And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.”
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“Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.”
Source : Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.324, Oxford University Press
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“Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.”
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“When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.”
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“Anytime I am doing something that will help someone in any way, whether it is a simple recipe, a tip, a decoration thing, or a life-change thing, it brings me to life and inspires me to do more of it.”
Source : "Camila Alves: On What Inspires Her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.