"I usually think in terms of music"

-- Shane West

#Thinking Quotes #Term Quotes

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
“The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.”

Source : Sam Vaknin (2005). “Diary of a Narcissist”, p.90, Narcissus Publishing
“Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.”
“We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.”

Source : Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books
“We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from our viewpoint. This means that the ideas that men hold determine their choice of actions. This means that the most important thing in the world is ideas.”
“The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57
“When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.”

Source : Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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