"When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me."

-- Robert Greene

#Thinking Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Giving Quotes

“We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict thingsâ€”and we arenâ€™t very good at it.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.19, Penguin
“In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.”
“Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.”

Source : Twitter post from May 19, 2012
“I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.”
“Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.”
“I was involved in some peaceful protests.”

Source : "Akin acknowledges arrest at anti-abortion protest from long ago". www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2012.
“Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.”
“Stop looking for your purpose. BE it!”

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