"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Insight Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.”
“I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.”
“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”

Source : Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.12, New York Review of Books
“People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.”
“I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.”
“I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.”
“There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.”
“Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.”

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